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of the places from whence one writes, that
it is not probable he would either have piasure,
or necessary helps for Composing such Treati-
ses. Although in the Correspondence I had du-
ring my Journey with our Friend Mr. D. W. I
have effectually writ to him all that is contained
in my Letters about the She Pope, and I have
been in some measure forced to do it, by his ob-
jections : And though on the other hand, my
Letters be dated from a place where I needed
not to want Books, if I had occasion for ’em, and
not from a Camp or a Desart; yet I assure you,
I have been tempted, when t!»e second Edition of
these Letters were reprinted, to suppress that Arti-
cle, because the Discussion thereof is a little too
long, and consequently exceeds the bounds that
one ought, in myopinion, to prescribeto himself
in Letters of this nature.
According therefore to these Notions, which
without Contradiction, are the just Ideas that
one ought to have of such a Relation as this
which I have published ought to be, one could
go five hundred times into the same Country,
and make five hundred different Relations of it,
equally agreeable.
k I shall then write a Second Journey through Itaty,
without repeating one word either of what I have
already Did my self, or of what others have,
said before me. And I assure you, Sir, that the
trouble I shall have in the execution of thissmall
design, will not proceed from the want of Mat-
ter, but rather from the choice that I ought to
pick out of the abundant Remarks wherewith
I have fill’d my Memoires. ’Tis true, there is an
inconveniency in this Plenty, because it obliges
me to be silent in a great many Notable Observa-
tions that I have made, only because I have ob-
served that others have done the same, and that I
have
it is not probable he would either have piasure,
or necessary helps for Composing such Treati-
ses. Although in the Correspondence I had du-
ring my Journey with our Friend Mr. D. W. I
have effectually writ to him all that is contained
in my Letters about the She Pope, and I have
been in some measure forced to do it, by his ob-
jections : And though on the other hand, my
Letters be dated from a place where I needed
not to want Books, if I had occasion for ’em, and
not from a Camp or a Desart; yet I assure you,
I have been tempted, when t!»e second Edition of
these Letters were reprinted, to suppress that Arti-
cle, because the Discussion thereof is a little too
long, and consequently exceeds the bounds that
one ought, in myopinion, to prescribeto himself
in Letters of this nature.
According therefore to these Notions, which
without Contradiction, are the just Ideas that
one ought to have of such a Relation as this
which I have published ought to be, one could
go five hundred times into the same Country,
and make five hundred different Relations of it,
equally agreeable.
k I shall then write a Second Journey through Itaty,
without repeating one word either of what I have
already Did my self, or of what others have,
said before me. And I assure you, Sir, that the
trouble I shall have in the execution of thissmall
design, will not proceed from the want of Mat-
ter, but rather from the choice that I ought to
pick out of the abundant Remarks wherewith
I have fill’d my Memoires. ’Tis true, there is an
inconveniency in this Plenty, because it obliges
me to be silent in a great many Notable Observa-
tions that I have made, only because I have ob-
served that others have done the same, and that I
have