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fflust be sought after to know'them, and one
must seck after them with Care and Pains;
there are 4ome that are enquir’d after, but
are easily found; and there are others that
offer themselves to view, so that one ,has
no more trouble but to observc them. Tis
true, that I have scarce pryed into the first
for want of Time and other requisite Means;
but it was easie for me to come to the know-
ledge of several of the others ; and above all,
to coni ider and to describe what has presented
lit self to my view. For this reasbn I care-
fully made a distinAion in the Advertisement
|at the beginning of this Book, between a
\Uescription and a Relation. ’Tis one thing to
undertake to describe a Country, a City, or
any other thing of what Nature soever; and
another to Communicate to a Friend, in a
Letter, the Observations one has occasion to
make in Travelling through the Places he
fpeaks of.
As to what relates to the Manners and
Customs of People, ’tis plain, that if one
,-designs to do them Justice, and to speak no-
thing of them but the Truth, he must have
had much Conversation with those of whom
he undertakes to speak; and above all, if he
intends to descend to Particulars. T hat which
has made me very circumspeA and very close
upon this Point, is the ill Judgment that I
see many People have made in the Relations
they have publilhed. For example, If one
Should ask Er. 5. about what Sorliere hath
Laid of the Manners of the Engjifh, and of
seve-
fflust be sought after to know'them, and one
must seck after them with Care and Pains;
there are 4ome that are enquir’d after, but
are easily found; and there are others that
offer themselves to view, so that one ,has
no more trouble but to observc them. Tis
true, that I have scarce pryed into the first
for want of Time and other requisite Means;
but it was easie for me to come to the know-
ledge of several of the others ; and above all,
to coni ider and to describe what has presented
lit self to my view. For this reasbn I care-
fully made a distinAion in the Advertisement
|at the beginning of this Book, between a
\Uescription and a Relation. ’Tis one thing to
undertake to describe a Country, a City, or
any other thing of what Nature soever; and
another to Communicate to a Friend, in a
Letter, the Observations one has occasion to
make in Travelling through the Places he
fpeaks of.
As to what relates to the Manners and
Customs of People, ’tis plain, that if one
,-designs to do them Justice, and to speak no-
thing of them but the Truth, he must have
had much Conversation with those of whom
he undertakes to speak; and above all, if he
intends to descend to Particulars. T hat which
has made me very circumspeA and very close
upon this Point, is the ill Judgment that I
see many People have made in the Relations
they have publilhed. For example, If one
Should ask Er. 5. about what Sorliere hath
Laid of the Manners of the Engjifh, and of
seve-