IV 
PREFACE. 
In the course of the subsequent narrative, the 
author has generally used a plural expression, 
even with reference to his own personal obser- 
vations. This mode of writing was adopted, 
not solely, with a view to divest his style of 
egotism, but in allusion to his friend, the cause 
and companion of his travels, John Marten 
Cripps, M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge; whose 
unceasing ardour in prosecuting every enter- 
prise, added to the mildness and suavity of his 
manners, endeared him to the inhabitants oi every 
country he visited. The constancy and firm- 
ness which he preserved through all the trials 
and privations of a long and arduous journey 
as well as the support which he rendered to 
the author, in hours of painful and dangerous 
sickness, demand the warmest expressions of 
gratitude. The Plants collected during the route 
were the result of their mutual labour ; but the 
whole of the Meteorological Statement in the 
Appendix ', together with the account given of 
Relays and Distances 1 2 , are due to his patient 
observation and industry. 
To the Rev. Reginald Heber, late Fellow of 
All-Souls College, Oxford, the author is indebted 
(1) See the Appendix to Vols. II. IV. VI. & VIII. 
(2) Ibid. 
