PREFACE 
TO TUC 
SECOND SECTION OF PART THE SECOND. 
1 HIS addition to the Second Part of these 
Travels, will enable the Reader to form a tole- 
rable estimate of the probable compass of the 
entire Work : and it may serve to prove, that 
the author, if he should live to complete his 
undertaking, will not have exceeded his original 
estimate, in the account of a journey through 
forty-five degrees of longitude, and nearly forty 
degrees of latitude. In his endeavour to concen- 
trate the subject, he may have omitted observa- 
tions which a particular class of Readers would 
have preferred to those which have been inserted. 
He has sometimes, for example, sacrificed 
statistical notices, that he might introduce his- 
torical information, where Antient History is 
pre-eminently interesting; and again, on the 
other hand, he has purposely omitted much 
that he had written on the subject of Antiquities, 
that he might insert a few remarks upon the 
■ Egyptian and Grecian scenery, and upon the 
