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mentioned with a higher Encomium than Rauwolfius'® 

 Itinerary is $ but being printed about 1 op Years fince, 

 it is very rare, and being never tranflated out of high 

 Dutch) (in which Language it was writ) it is unintel- 

 ligible to thofe who do not unde/ftand the German 

 Tongue, which occafioned me fome Time fince, in 

 Difcourfe with our learned and ingenious Ivriends, 

 Dr. Shane and Dr. Rohinfon^ to exprefs my Senti- 

 ments, that I believ'd a Tranflation of it into Englijh 

 would be very acceptable to all the ingenious Perfons 

 of our Nation^ and they both concurring in my O 

 pinion, Dr. Sloane borrowed it out of the Library of 

 the Royal Society, and Mr. Staphorft is about the 

 Tranflation of it into Englijh^ and hath near fintfh'd 

 it. But before it be publifh'd, it would be very ne- 

 'ceflary, not only that the Style of the Tranflation 

 (which is performed by a German) fliould be corre&ed 

 by a Mafter of the Englijh Language, but that the 

 Author himfelf fhould be animadverted on in fome 

 Places. The learned and famed Ludolphus^ in his in- 

 •comparable Commentary on his Mthiopick Hiftory^ 

 hath reproved him, for aiTerting that the Unicorn was 

 in the Abyjjirfs Countrey. But Rauwolfius doth not 

 pretend to have been there, only relates it from 

 one, his Affe&ion to whom had biafs'dhis Judgment $ 

 and it is much to be fear'd, that even theperfpica- 

 cious and judicious Ludolphus himfelf may have been 

 impofed upon in fome things he aflerts by the Credi- 

 bility he gives to the Relator. And conlidering, that 

 fince the Time Rauwolfius travelPd into Afia^ the 

 Manners and Cufioms of thofe Countries may have 

 been alter'd and chang'd 5 and fome have been more 

 fully difcovered than he could in his fhort Stay in thofe 

 Pans. It was highly to be wifla'd that fome Perfon, 

 duly qualified for fuch an Undertaking, would, where 

 requifite, make fome brief Animadverlions and Diluci- 

 dations: And if any Perfon of great and deferved 

 f\mc would in a fhort Preface give fqipe Account of 



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