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The Preface.
thvfe Strangers who re fide among ’em,
and in cOnjunblion with their sormer Pre-
judices , prompts 'em to "make long and
losty Dijcourjts on the mofl inconfiderable
Subjects. The Obfervation of this Fault
in others, made me Very careful to avoid
salling mto the fame Errors I examin d
things coolly, and Jusserd thofe perpetual
Admirers to evaporate in fublime Figures,
and Exclamations of Wonder, without re-
garding their pompous and fuperhtive
Exprejsions. Pur thd 1 had not the. Com-.
plaifance to admire every thing which they
extoll’d, I hope 1 fhall not have the MiJ-
sortune to be accus’d of being possejsd
with a Prejudice, oppofte to that which. I
blame in others ; sor the equitable Pleader
will eafily perceive, that I take Pleajure to
do Juftice to thofe things which I think, de-
ferVe Praife.
I wrote thefe Letters without conf idling
the Authors who have treated os the fame
Subject besore me .* For besides that the
hurry of Travelling made Juch a Dejign
impracticable, 1 could not have receiv’d
much benefit by it, since, as I intimated
a before^