ble brokers, for such conversation as he can find, it requires no great spirit of divination to guess at his party.

This brings me to my point; and naturally leads me (if the see-saw of this desobligeant will but let me get on) into the efficient as well as the final causes of travelling.

Your idle people, that leave their native country and go abroad, for some reason or reasons which may be derived from one of these general causesInfirmity of body,

Imbecility f mind, or
Inevitable necessity,

The first two include all those who travel by land or by water, labouring with pride, curiosity, vanity or spleen, subdivided and combined in infinitum.

The third class includes the whole army of peregrine martyrs more especially those travellers who set out upon their travels with the benefit of the clergy, either as elinquents 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 governors recommended by Oxford, Aberdeen, and Clasgow.

There is a fourth class; but their number is so small, that they would not deserve a distinction, was it not necessary, in a work of this nature, to observe the greatest precision and nicety, to avoid a confusion of character. And these men I speak of are such as cro-s the seas and sojourn 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

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deal of unnecessary trouble, by saving their money at home-and as their reasons for travelling are the least complex of any other species of emigrants, I shall distinguish these gentlemen by the name of Simple Travellers.

Thus the whole circle of travellers may be reduced to the following heads: Idle Travellers,

Inquisitive Travellers,
Lying Travellers,
Proud Travellers,
Vain Travellers,

Splenetic Travellers,

Then follow the travellers of necessity :
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 travelled, and of which im now sitting down to give an account -as much out of necessity and the besoin de voyager as any one in the class.

I am well aware, at the same time, as both my travels and observations will be altogether of a different cast from any of my forerunners, that I might have insisted upon a whole niche entirely to myself -but I should break in upon the confines of the vain travellers, in wishing to draw the attention towards me, till I have some better grounds for it than the mere novelty of my vehicle.

It is sufficient 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 same wine at the Cape, that the same grape produced upon the French mountains-he was too phlematic for that-but undoubtedly he expected to drink some sort 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 success: 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 discretion, Mynheer might possibly overset both in his new vineyard; and by discovering his nakedness, become a laughing-stock to his people.

Even so it fares with the poor traveller, sailing and posting through the politer kingdoms of the globe, in pursuit of knowledge and improvements.

Knowledge and improvements are to be got by sailing and posting for that pu: pose; but whether useful knowledge and real improvement, is all a lottery-and even where the adventurer is successful, the acquired stock must be used with caution and sobriety, to turn to any profit-but as the chances run prodigiously the other way, both as to the acquisition and application, I am of opinion, that a man would act as wisely, if he could prevail upon himself to live contented without foreign knowl