ADVERTISEMENT 
TO 
THE THIRD QUARTO EDITION OF 
PART THE FIRST. 
A third Edition of the First Part of these 
Travels, within the short space of time that 
has elapsed since its original publication, may- 
be considered as affording a good practical 
answer to certain objections which have been 
made against it. Whether this presumption 
be true or false, the author ventures, upon 
such encouragement, to proceed with the rest 
of the work according to his original plan. 
In the present Edition, the text has been 
revised : the account given of the state of the 
society in Russia has been suffered to remain 
nearly as it was printed in the former Editions, 
and as it was written upon the spot. 
Trumpington, near Cambridge, 
May 1, 1813. 
