Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

PREFACE.
pass'd: Mr. Ray is to be valu’d sor
bis Obfervations on the Natural
Productions os thePlace. Monssieur
Mi Hon has 'wrote a more correct
Account os Italy in general than
any before him, as he particularly
Excels in the Plan of the Country,
which he has given us in true and
lively. Colours.
There are fill several of thefe
Topicks that are far from being
exhaujteds as there are many new
Subjects that a Traveller may sind
to employ himself upon. For my
own part, as I have taken Notice os
fev er alP laces and Antiquities that
no Body elfe has fpoken of, fo, 1
think, I have mentioned but few
are notei ther set in a new Light,
or accompany d with different Re^
ssections. I have taken care parti-
cularly to consider the feveral P a fl-
fa ges of the Ancient Poets, which
have any Relation to the Places
or Curiofities that I met with: For
before 1 entered on my Voyage I took
a care