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arrangement of his materials, cannot be sup- 
posed capable of making any exact calculation, 
as to what his Readers may deem it proper for 
him to omit, or to insert : but so far as experi- 
ence has enabled the writer of these Travels to 
determine, he has endeavoured to obviate 
former objections ; first, by disposing into the 
form of Notes all extraneous matter, and all 
citations; and secondly, by compressing even 
these, as much as possible, both by diminishing 
the size of the type, and by the omission of 
Latin interpretations of Greek authors, which are 
often erroneous. With regard, however, to the 
numerous additions made to his Work in the 
form of Notes, it may be proper to state, once 
for all, that they are exclusively his own, with 
the exception of the extracts made from the 
Manuscript Journals of his Friends : and when 
tliese occur, the name of the traveller has 
always been added, to whom the author is 
indebted for the passage inserted. He has been 
induced to mention this circumstance, that no 
person may be made responsible for any of 
those errors and imperfections which belong 
solely to himself. 
In addition to the Manuscript Journal of Mr. 
Walpole, this part of the Work will be found 
