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ingenious Publifher rs fo far from Alterations^ 
that he would not fo much as change that for- 
reign Air and Drefs they brought with them from 
Abroad, chufing rather to let them Ipeak in the 
naked and plain ftrain of the Author, than in the 
^ more elaborate . Language of the Court and 
Town, which would chiefly be believed for their 
words-fake; And indeed, he had reafon fo to 
do, for a genuine and fimple ftyle, fuch as can 
raiic a diftind Idea in the mind of the Reader, 
is xhc proper ftyle for partidilar and exad Rela- * 
tiofts of things; and that was the Charaâer of 
Monfeur de Thevenot^ in the firft Part of his Tra- 
vels; which hath been fo well taken and appro- 
ved of by all Men of Breeding and Senle, that it 
would have been an Injury both to the Author 
and Reader to have Alter d it. 
The extraordinary Exadnefi of our Judicious 
Traveller, in oblerving the Minuteft Particular 
of any thing that occurred to him abroad, may 
be diflik'd perhaps, by fome who mind their 
pleafiire more than profit, in Reading the Rela- 
tions of Travels, and hajd rather be fhamm'd with 
fome Romantick idle Tales, than inftruded in 
real and (iibftantial Truths. But (eeing all his 
Obfervations are made with Judgment, that 
feeming* foperfluous exadneis can be no finall Sa- 
tisfaftion to the Curiofity of all Ingenious Per- 
fons, nor no inconfiderable' Advantage neither to 
thofe who Travel into,the fimc Countries, when 
they fhall find the leaft things obfervable on all 
the Roads he paft, fo particularly kt down and 
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