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PREFACE
B Y
THE EDITOR.
THE merit os these Travels by Mr. Nor den is already
too well eftabliihed to need any recommendation from
me, and is the reafon that no pains nor coft have
been spared to render the Englifh edition as pompous as the
original. The beautiful fimplicity of the defignsy and the
exa£tnefs with which they were drawn on the fpot, are, I believe,
fuperior to any thing of the kind that has ever been published.
The curious may here sind the school of the Grecian archi-
tecture, and the learned will see a kind os comment on the
defcriptions that the ancients have given of the Egyptian edisices.
In the several charts os the Nile, the reader is delighted with
landskips os the country on each side, here fees level lawns, and
there frightful precipices; is one while charmed with groves os
palm trees, at another time (truck with admiration os the nume-
rous cities that border on the river, with crescents towring to the
sky. Ruins, monuments, magnisicent buildings, catara&s, deserts,
haunts os wild beasts or men as savage as they, every thing that
can attract the eye, or affe£t the imagination, is exposed to the
view. In ihort, the reader seems to accompany the author in
his voyage, and to share all his pleafures without undergoing the
fatigue and dangers.
The ftyle of the author is plain and narrative, without any
assestad ornaments os expression ; and I have endeavoured to
obferve the same fimplicity in the tranilation.
There
B Y
THE EDITOR.
THE merit os these Travels by Mr. Nor den is already
too well eftabliihed to need any recommendation from
me, and is the reafon that no pains nor coft have
been spared to render the Englifh edition as pompous as the
original. The beautiful fimplicity of the defignsy and the
exa£tnefs with which they were drawn on the fpot, are, I believe,
fuperior to any thing of the kind that has ever been published.
The curious may here sind the school of the Grecian archi-
tecture, and the learned will see a kind os comment on the
defcriptions that the ancients have given of the Egyptian edisices.
In the several charts os the Nile, the reader is delighted with
landskips os the country on each side, here fees level lawns, and
there frightful precipices; is one while charmed with groves os
palm trees, at another time (truck with admiration os the nume-
rous cities that border on the river, with crescents towring to the
sky. Ruins, monuments, magnisicent buildings, catara&s, deserts,
haunts os wild beasts or men as savage as they, every thing that
can attract the eye, or affe£t the imagination, is exposed to the
view. In ihort, the reader seems to accompany the author in
his voyage, and to share all his pleafures without undergoing the
fatigue and dangers.
The ftyle of the author is plain and narrative, without any
assestad ornaments os expression ; and I have endeavoured to
obferve the same fimplicity in the tranilation.
There