TRAVELS 
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GEORGIA, PERSIA, 
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The extraordinary political situation in which, not Europe only, 
but every country of the globe, has been involved during these 
last twenty-five years, has, in a most wonderful manner, brought 
all nations, remote and near, in a kind of scenic review before 
the observing eye. Places in ancient history, which time had 
thrown at such a distance in our minds, that they seemed almost 
as much passed into the grave as the persons their historians 
recorded, have not only risen before us, but appear as if at our 
very doors* touching us, in a thousand ways, by the sympathy 
of strangely associating interests. In short, the principle of 
the interests of any one particular kingdom, which, half a century 
ago, would not have been considered beyond the limits of its 
immediate neighbours, our portentous times have made so 
consequential to the security of all others, that the field of 
combat for one nation’s rights has become the whole world. 
Hence the general impulse which has lately hurried the in¬ 
habitants of one half of the globe to visit the regions of the 
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