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Mi^. LED YARD'S 
otherwife have occafioned ; and procured for him die neceffary 
iiiilru6lions for afiiiming the drefs, and adopting the manners 
that are re(|uifite for an Egyptian Traveller. 
Forcibly impreffed by the obje£ls which he faw, and natu- 
rally led to compare them with thofe which other Regions of the 
Globe had prefented to his view, he defcribes with the energy 
of an orip-inal Obferver, and exhibits in his Narrative the va- 
ried efTe£t of hmilarity and contrail : but as the travellers who 
preceded him, have obtained and tranfmitted to Europe what- 
ever knowledge, either ancient or modern, the Lower Egypt 
affords, and as the examination of that country was no part of 
the buiinefs which was given him in charge, his defcriptions, 
generally fpeaking^ would add but little to the inftru£tion which 
other Narratives convey. 
The following Extracts from different parts of his Journal 
are given in his own v/ords. 
A traveller, who fliould, by juft comparifons between 
things here and in Europe, tell his tale ; who, by a mind unbe- 
witched by antecedent defcriptions, too ftrong, too bold, too 
determined, too honeft, to be capable of lying, fhould fpeak juil 
as 
