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PREFACE to flRST SECTION 
salem — among travellers, who, in an age when 
feelmgs and opinions upon such subjects were 
manifestly different from those now maintained, 
with great humbleness of spirit, and matchless 
simplicity of language, " expected remission of 
sin no other ways, but only in the name, and 
for the merits, of our Lord Jesus Christ;" — 
who undertook their pilgrimage, " not to get 
any thing by it, as by a good work; nor to 
visit stone and wood to obtain indulgence ; nor 
with opinion to come nearer to Christ" by 
visiting Jerusalem, " because all these things 
are directly contrary to Scripture ; but to 
" increase the general stock of useful know- 
ledge,"' to '' afford the Reader both profit and 
pleasure ; that those who have no opportunity 
to visit foreign countries may have them before 
their eyes, as in a map, to contemplate ; that 
others may be excited further to inquire into 
these things, and induced to travel themselves 
into those parts ;" that they may be " instructed 
in the customs, laws, and orders of men;" 
that the '' present state, condition, situation, 
and manners of the world may be surveyed and 
described ; not by transcribing what others 
have written," but by fairly stating what 
" they have themselves seen, experienced, and 
handled," so that their " pains and dihgence be 
not altogether vain." 
