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communication, even with ignorance itself; just as commerce
and wealth derive profit from an intercourse with poverty. Every
species of knowledge may be promoted by travelling into different
countries: in all of them there will be found ample scope for
observation and reflection, natural, moral, and political. It is only
by a comprehensive and unconfined survey of nature, external
and internal, by a growing accumulation of facts and conclusions,
compared and combined with one another, that the empire of
science is to be extended: and the most striking objects for such
a combination and comparison, will probably be those which
present themselves in a sudden transition from one extreme to
the other; such as from the South to the North of Europe.
It was not without the utmost reluctance, that the Author
yielded to the pressing solicitations of his friends to print this
work. It is the first that he has offered to the public, and he is
sensible that it would be in vain to court for it the indulgence of
his readers, if he should fail of recommending himself by it to
their esteem.
The first part of these Travels, written for the gratification of
a small circle, who were curious to learn the present state of arts,
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