PREFACE. 
TF the defire of literary fame were the chief mo- 
tive for fubmitting to public notice the following 
fheets, the writer is not fo far blinded by felf-love, 
as not to be confcious of having failed of his object. 
The fimple narrative of a journey is perhaps as little 
a proper fource of reputation for elegance of com- 
pofition, as a journey of the kind defcribed is in 
itfelf of the pleafures of fenfe. But the prefent, 
from various circumftances, comprehends fo fmall a 
portion of what might be expedled from the obferv- 
ations of feveral years, that he has been often dif- 
pofed to give it a difFerent title. 
The retrofpe(3: on the events of his life which are 
briefly mentioned in the enfuing pages, offers him a 
a mixed 
