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Father hath told us ahove^ ) but the Curious Tihnjieur Bernier 
ieing lately returned from the Mogoliaos , gives us geod afftn^ 
ranc£, that neither thej^ nor their Brachmans ^ ^re now mrtky 
to teach the Enropcdus but the Wifefi amongfi them do rejoyce 
in the philofophical Light ^ tohich norp fijims in the Weft, and in 
mr North. And who k^orvs^ h&w foon or how potently our worn 
derfuH progrefs of Arts ^ and the Lufire of our Philofophy may 
awaken them, to embrace the more glorious deSrine of the Gof^ 
fil^ We hope, this Ingenious TraveHour will make hafi to giv% 
us « Philofophical accompt of his Travels , with no lefs accu^ 
' ratenefs^ than he hath given us the Political Myfteries of th^ 
Mogolians , and the Sottijbnefs of the Chrijiian Ah^JJins or 
thiopians* 
JVhen the Emulation rvas hottejl on both fides the Alpes^ wh& 
Jhould excell in the fiowry Arts of Oratory and Poetry ^ though 
i Sanazary tvas then on one fide of the Alpcs , and far greater 
men, great Poets on the other fide in France 5 yet both the Sea* 
ligerSj Julius and "^ofepbus^ themfdves Italians and Frembj gave 
the lawrel to^^xxchzn^n a Scdt, And thus the Wefl or 'North- 
mnd^ bringing the fweet flowers of Philology^ and the ricbejl 
fruit of Philofophy^ will be more "wellcome to the Inpelligent^ than 
the fetid and contagious blafis from the Ea^^ And the Wifi 
and the Vertuous ought not t& regard thB Cenfures and reproaches, 
cf the ignorant or malignant Multitudes,, Tihey retain an in^. 
ternal fatisfaBion mthin themfelves ; and found Thilofbphers are 
' ^ mutually each to other fufficient Theaters, 1 Jhall no longer de^ 
tain the Curious and Jngmims Reader from the bujinefs we havs 
inhand^ 
