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TO 
HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY 
GEORGE THE FOURTH. 
Sire, 
With those principles of devoted duty to Your 
Majesty’s Royal Person, which must belong 1 to every 
true Englishman, these Travels are laid at the foot 
of the British Throne. 
They describe countries of the East, to which 
British arts and learning lent their light three hun¬ 
dred years ago ; and they would show that the still 
more munificent stream of essential knowledge which 
has been dispensed thither from this kingdom, since 
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