Then follow the Travellers of Neceffity, The delinquent and felonious Traveller, The unfortunate and innocent Traveller, The simple Traveller,

And last of all (if you please)

The Sentimental Traveller

(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.

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I am well aware, at the fame time, as both my travels and observations will be altogether of a different caft from any of my fore-runners; that I might have insisted upon a whole niche entirely to myfelf but I should break in upon the confines of the Vain Traveller, in wishing to draw attention towards me, till 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 reflection 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 Dutchman) never dreamt of drinking the

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fame wine at the Cape that the fame grape produced upon the French mountains he phlegmatic for that but undoubtedly he expected to drink fome 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 both in his new vine-yard; and by discovering his nakedness, become a laughing-stock 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 ufeful knowledge and real improvements, is all a lottery - and even where the adventurer is fuccefsful, the acquired stock must be used with caution and fobriety to turn to any profit - but as the chances run prodigiously the other way, both as to the acquifition and application, I am of opinion, That a man would act as wifely, if he could prevail upon himfelf, 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 inquisitive Traveller has measured to fee fights and look into discoveries; all which, as Sancho Pança faid to Don Quixote, they might have feen dry-shod at home. It is an age fo full of light, that there is scarce a country or corner of Europe whose beams are not crossed 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 heaven and 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 furely won than here - where art is encouraged, aud will foon rife high where Nature (take her altogether) has fo little to answer 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?

-We are only looking at this chaise, said they Your most obedient servant, faid I, skipping out of it, and pulling off my hat - We were wondering, faid one of them, who, I found, was an inquifitive traveller what could occafion its motion. 'Twas the agitation, faid I coolly, of writing a preface - I never heard, faid the other, who was a simple traveller, of a preface wrote in a Defobligeant. It would have been better, faid I, in a Vis à Vis.

As an Englishman does not travel to fee Englishmen, I retired to my room.

CALAI S.

I Perceived that fomething darken'd the paffage more than myself, as I stepp'd along it to my room; it was effectually Monf. Dessein, the master of the hôtel, who had just returned from vespers, and, with his hat under his arm, was most complaifantly following me, to put me in mind of my wants. I had wrote myself pretty well out of conceit with the Defobligeant; and Monf. Dessein speaking of it, with a shrug, as if it would no way fuit me, it immediately ftruck my fancy that it belong'd to fome innocent traveller, who, on his return home, had left it to Monf. Dessein's honor to make the most of. Four months had elapsed since it had finished its career of Europe in the corner of Monf, Deffein's coach-yard; and having fallied out from thence but a vampt-up business at the first, though it had been twice taken to pieces on Mount Sennis, it had not profited much by its adventures by none fo little as the standing so many months unpitied in the corner of Monf. Deffein's coachyard. Much indeed was not to be faid for it --but something might - and when a few words will refcue mifery out of her distress, I hate the man who can be a churl of them.

but

-Now was I the master of this hôtel, said I, laying the point of my fore-finger on Mr. Dessein's

breast, I would inevitably make a point of getting rid of this unfortunate Defobligeant - it stands swinging reproaches at you every time you pass by it.

Mon Dieu! faid Monf. Deffein I have no interest - Except the interest, said I, which men of a certain turn of mind take, Monf. Dessein, in their own fenfations I'm perfuaded, to a man who feels for others as well as for himself, every rainy night, disguise it as you will, must cast a damp upon your spirits - You fuffer, Monf. Dessein, as much as the machine

I have always observed, when there is as much four as sweet in a compliment, that an Englishman is eternally at a loss within himself, whether to take it or let it alone: a Frenchman never is: Monf. Dessein made me a bow.

C'est bien vrai, faid he But in this cafe I should only exchange one disquietude for another, and with loss: figure to yourself, my dear Sir, that in giving you a chaife which would fall to pieces before you had got half way to Paris figure to yourself how much I should fuffer, in giving an ill impreffion of myself to a man of honor and lying at the mercy, as I must do, d'un homme d'efprit.

The dose was made up exactly after my own prescription; so I could not help taking it - and returning Monf. Dessein his bow, without more casuistry we walk'd together towards his Remise, to take a view of his magazine of chaises.

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