the PREF AC E. 
defcribed, that a Traveller who hath the Book 
with him^ may be able to tell as well as his 
Guide what kind of way and accommodation up- 
on the Road they are like to havc^ even Ibme 
days before they Travel it ; infomuch^ that it may 
be confidently affirmed^ that no Almanack fo ex- 
adly defcribes the Road from London to Torl^, as 
our Induftrious Author hath done it in that vaft 
extent of Countries he paÉ'd through* for which 
all Travellers ought to have a veneration for his 
Memory, and if they nitend to make Publick any 
thing of this Nature, Imitate him if they can. 
I amboldtoiay, if they can; becaufe, befides 
the fingular Talents and Abilities Monfieur de The- 
venot had for Obfervation ; he undertook his Tra- 
vels in a far more noble proiped:, than that which 
carries a great many others fo far from home; who 
making their Trade their main bufinefi, cannot 
beftow but the leaft part of their Application up- 
on curious Obfervation. As for him, he was 
wholly devoted to it, and that with fb great Af 
fiduity, that (according to the report of many 
who few him in thofe Countries) he hardly al- 
lowed himfelf time to eat. It is eafie to judge of the 
vaftnçÉ of his Labour, by the reading of thefe Re- 
lations, wherein it appears, that he was conftaijtly 
taken up in making Remarks generally on all 
things. But as a farther confirmation of this, the 
Gentleman who Publifhed the two laft Parts of thefe 
Travels, has now by him ^ Work made by the 
Author in the Indies ^ that gives a far greater proof 
of his exaânefi and pains. It is a CoUedion of 
all 
