The PKF4C E. 
Knowledge and improve Learning, to fliew how 
great his Abilities were in this kind. 
fSAdonJieur de Thevenot J the Renowned Author 
of thefe Travels, was a Gentleman of a good Fami- 
ly, Born the feventh of Jme^ 1635. At Eigh- 
teen Years of Age he had accomplifh'd his Stu- 
dies in the College of Navarre^ in the Llniver- 
fity oiFarif, and then applied himfelf to thofe 
Exercifes, which in the breedings of Youth, com- 
monly fuccede to their School Education ; till ha- 
ving bothadefire and liberty to Travel* On the 
Eighteenth of December ^ 1652. he parted from 
Paris for England, He made no long ftay in this 
Country, but took the firft occafion of Sailing 
over to Holland^ where he remained longer. His 
next remove was to and from Colen to 
Eranch^fort and Ratisbone^ that he might fee an 
Imperial Diet there. He afterwards crojflfed the re- 
maining part of Germany J and entering Italy by the 
Mountains of Tirol^ went firft to Verona^ from 
thence to Venice-^ from Venice to Loretto-^ 
and from thence to Kome, He ftayed a confide- 
rable time there, becaufe v/hen he was juft upon 
parting. Top Innocent the Tenth Died • fb that 
he refolved to tarry a little longer that he might 
fee the Ceremonies, and all that happens on fuch 
Occafions, during a Conclave, and at the Coro- 
nation of a Vo^e, He left not Rome then, till 
after the Creation of Alexander the Seventh. The 
firft part of his Travels over moft part of Turh^y^ 
Egypj the Holy Land^ &c. (which he himfelf put 
to the Prels) is an Account of what he had fèen in 
that 
