The PREFACE. 
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Europe^ he Died at Miana, a litrle place about 
thirty Leagues from Tamis^ the twenty eighth of 
ISlovember^ 1667. his Obfervations ending but a 
few days before his Life ; whofe Death^ not only his 
Relations (to whom he was very dear) but even the 
publick hath reafon to bewail^ as having loft in 
him an Example of Piety, a Model of Vertue.and 
a Treafury of Knowledge. Nay, Reader, you 
alfo have cauft to Lament this hofs^ in relation to 
that Satisfadion you might have had from the laft 
two Parts of his Relations; which would have 
been doubdefe Augmented, if Providence had 
granted him longer Lite. For Monfieur de Thevenot 
was not only ex aft in the daily Mémoires he made 
in Travelling, of all things he obferved in the Coun- 
treys he paiïèd through, but being a perlbn very - 
inquifitive after the Truth, and who would not 
reft latisfied with every flight Information, he ad- 
drefs'd himfelf to as many, and as often as poffibly 
he could, the better to find out the truth of what 
he defired to know, and di{perftd the notices he 
had given him here and there confufedly among his 
Mémoires ; fo that the Publifher who imployed 
all imaginable care and pains in compiling them, is 
neverthelefs forced to complain of the great Fatigue 
he underwent, in putting them together in the 
order they fhould be, and are in. However, it is 
not to be thought, that there is any thing fuppofi- 
titious or altered in thefe two laft Parts ; no, they 
are only not fo fiill as they would have been^ 
had the Author lived to decipher the Short Notes, 
which were clear enough to him, though not alto- 
gether fo intelligible to others: And the truth is, the 
Ingenious 
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