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pas bien le genre des noros en francais, mais non ego paucis offendar maculis.—- 
The principal date of his travels may be briefly noticed from the present pub- 
lication. He continued in Morocco from June 1803 to October 1805, when 
he embarked at Larisch for Tripoli. In January 1806, he sailed for Cyprus, 
where he stayed two months. He arrived at Alexandria in May in that year. 
In October he went to Cairo. In December to Suez, and from that place sail- 
ed to Jeddo. He proceeded on the Mahometan pilgrimage to Mecca, where he 
arrived in January 1807. He returned to Cairo in June of that year; went 
with the caravan to Jerusalem in July, and from thence to Acre, Mount Car- 
mel, Nazareth, the Sea of Gallilee, the river Jordan, Damascus, and Aleppo, 
At the end of October 1807, he visited Constantinople. 
In ilrc auiumii or 1813 he was at Paris, and at the sittings of the national in- 
stitute, on the 15th and 20th November 1813, he read to its scientific and also 
to its historical classes, a memorial on his travels, which excited great interest, 
That he has been accredited at Paris, will satisfactorily appear by the follow- 
ing letter of the celebrated Humboldt to Mrs. Helen Maria Williams, who 
was requested by the publisher to revise and complete the present translation. 
" J'ose recommander a mon excellente amie Mademoiselle Williams le fa- 
meux voyageur, qui sous le nom d' Ali Bey a €te a la Mecque. II fait faire a 
Paris meme une traduction de son itineraire qui est extremement curieux, 
Mr. Longman doit imprimer cette traduction, mais il desire que vous ayez la 
