The third class includes the whole army of peregrine martyrs; more especially those travel lers who fet out upon their travels with the benefit of the clergy, either as delinquents travelling under the direction of governors recommended by the magistrate - or young gentlemen transported by the cruelty of parents and guardians, and travelling under the direction of go vernors recommended by Oxford, Aberdeen and Glasgow. There is a fourth class, but their number is so small that they would not deserve a diftinGion, was it not neceffary in a work of this nature to observe the greatest precifion and nicety, to avoid a confufion of character. And these men I speak of, are such as cross the feas and fojourn in a land of strangers with a view of saving money for various reasons and upon various pretences: but as they might also save themselves and others a great deal of unnecessary trouble by saving their money at home - and as their reasons for travelling are the leaft complex of any other species of emigrants, I shall diftinguish these gentlemen by the name of Simple Travellers. 1 Thus Thus the whole circle of travellers may be reduced to the following Heads. Idle Travellers, Inquifitive Travellers, Lying Travellers, Proud Travellers, Vain Travellers, Splenetic Travellers, Then follow the Travellers of Neceffity.des And last of all (if you please) domst (meaning thereby myself) who have travell'd, and of which I am now fitting down to give an account as much out of Neceffity, and the besoin de voyager, as any one in the class. I am well aware, at the fame time, as both iny travels and observations will be altogether of a different caft from any of my forerunners; that I might have insisted upon a whole nitch entirely to myself - but I should break in upon the confines of the Vain Traveller, in wishing to draw attention towards me, till B I have fome better grounds for it, than the mere Novelty of my Vehicle. It is fufficient for my reader, if he has been a traveller himself, that with study and refletion hereupon he may be able to determine his own place and rank in the catalogue - it will be one step towards knowing himself; as it is great odds, but he retains some tincture and resemblance, of what he imbibed or carried out, to the present hour. The man who first transplanted the grape of Burgundy to the Cape of Good Hope (observe he was a Dutch man) never dreanit of drinking the fame wine at the Cape, that the fame grape produced upon the French mountains he was too phlegmatic for that - but undoubtedly he expected to drink some fort of vinous liquor; but whether good, bad, or indifferent he knew enough of this world to know, that it did not depend upon his choice, but that what is generally called chance was to decide his fuccess: however, he hoped for the best; and in these hopes, by an intemperate confidence in the fortitude of his head, and the depth of his difcretion, Mynheer might poffibly overfet overset both in his new vineyard; and by discovering his nakedness, become a laughingstock to his people. Even so it fares with the poor Traveller, failing and posting through the politer kingdoms of the globe in pursuit of knowledge and improvements. Knowledge and improvements are to be got by failing and posting for that purpose; but whether useful knowledge and real improvements, is all a lottery - and even where the adventurer is successful, the acquired stock muft be used with caution and fobriety to turn to any profit - but as the chances run prodigioufly the other way both as to the acquifition and application, I am of opinion, That a man would act as wisely, if he could prevail upon himself, to live contented without foreign knowledge or foreign improvements, especially if he lives in a country that has no absolute want of either and indeed, much grief of heart has it oft and many a time cost me, when I have observed how many a foul step the inquifitive Traveller has measured to see sights and look into disco veries; all which, as Sancho Pança said to Don Quixote, B2 ven Quixote, they might have seen dry-shod at home. It is an age so full of light, that there is scarce a country or corner of Europe whose beams are not croffed and interchanged with others - Knowledge in most of its branches, and in most affairs, is like music in an Italian street, whereof those may partake, who pay nothing - But there is no nation under heaand God is my record, (before whose tribunal I must one day come and give an account of this work) - that I do not speak it vauntingly - But there is no nation under heaven abounding with more variety of learning where the sciences may be more fitly woo'd, or more surely won than here - where art is encouraged, and will fo foon rise high -- where Nature (take her all together) has so little to anfwer for and, to close all, where there is more wit and variety of character to feed the mind with -- Where then, my dear countrymen, are you going - - bus - We are only looking at this chaise, said they - Your most obedient fervant, faid I, skipping out of it, and pulling off any hat We were wondering, said one of them, who, |