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PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.
quisite to enable him to traverse the country
without constant difficulty, doubt, and
inquiry. And indeed, if there be a Tour
in which such preparation is more particu-
larly wanting than in any other, it is that
to which I allude: as Italy owes more to
history than even to nature; and he who
goes over it merely with his eyes open to its
embellishments, and his mind intent on
observation, though he may see much and
learn much also, will yet, with all his cu-
riosity and diligence, discover one-half
only of its beauties. Even those travellers
who have made some efforts to qualify
themselves by previous application, will on
many occasions regret that they have not
extended their researches still farther, and
that they have not, by a longer course of
preparation, added to their means both of
amusement and of instruction *. It may,
* Vous ne sauriez croire, says the Abbe Barthelemi to
the Comte De Caylus, combien mon voyage (en Italie)
b 2
quisite to enable him to traverse the country
without constant difficulty, doubt, and
inquiry. And indeed, if there be a Tour
in which such preparation is more particu-
larly wanting than in any other, it is that
to which I allude: as Italy owes more to
history than even to nature; and he who
goes over it merely with his eyes open to its
embellishments, and his mind intent on
observation, though he may see much and
learn much also, will yet, with all his cu-
riosity and diligence, discover one-half
only of its beauties. Even those travellers
who have made some efforts to qualify
themselves by previous application, will on
many occasions regret that they have not
extended their researches still farther, and
that they have not, by a longer course of
preparation, added to their means both of
amusement and of instruction *. It may,
* Vous ne sauriez croire, says the Abbe Barthelemi to
the Comte De Caylus, combien mon voyage (en Italie)
b 2