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has given, from personal inspection, a more minute and exact account of the 
temple of Mecca than other travellers could lay before the public. His notice 
of the venerated mountain beyond Mecca, the last and principal object of the 
pilgrimage to that city, and his description of the interior of the temple of Jeru- 
salem, which no Christian is permitted to enter, will be found to contain much 
new information. But the publishers are desirous to abstain from any pane- 
gyric of a work, of which, however curious in their estimation, an enlightened 
public will be desirous to form its own impartial judgment. To that judgment 
they commit it, having been principally anxious by these remarks to prevent 
the title under which the author travelled from operating to the prejudice ©f 
Ms narrative. 
