rents and guardians, and travelling under the direction of governors recommended by Oxford, Aberdeen and Glasgow. There is a fourth clafs, but their number is fo fmall that they would not deferve a distinction, was it not neceffary in a work of this nature to obferve the greatest precifion and nicety, to avoid a confufion of character. And these men I fpeak of, are such as crofs the feas and fojourn in a land of ftrangers with a view of faving money for various reafons and upon various pretences: but as they might alfo fave themfelves and others a great deal of unneceffary trouble by faving their money at home and as their reafons for travelling are the least complex of any other fpecies of emigrants, I fhall distinguish these gentle-* men by the name of Simple Travellers. Thus the whole circle of travellers may be re duced to the following Heads. Idle Travellers, Inquifitive Travellers, Lying Travellers, Proud Travellers, Vain Travellers, Splenetic Travellers. Then follow the Travellers of Neceffity. The delinquent and felonious Traveller, The unfortunate and innocent Traveller, The The fimple Traveller, The fentimental 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 befoin de voyager, as any one in the class. I am well aware, at the fame time, as both my travels and obfervations will be altogether of a different cast from any of my fore-runners; that I might have infifted upon a whole nitch entirely to myself but I fhould break in upon the confines of the Vain Traveller, in wifhing 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 itudy 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 fome tincture and refemblance, of what he imbibed or carried out, to the prefent hour. The man who first transplanted the grape of Burgundy to the Cape of Good Hope (obferve he was a Dutch man) never dreamt 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 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 This choice, but that what is generally called chance was to decide his fuccefs: 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 vineyard; and by discovering his nakedness, become a laughingstock to his people. Even fo 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 himself, to live contented without foreign knowledge or foreign improvements, especially if he lives in a country that has no abfolute want of either and indeed, much grief of heart has it oft and many a time cost me, when I have obferved how many a foul step the inquifitive Traveller has measured to fee fights and look into discoveries; all which, as Sancho Pança said to Don Quixote, they might have feen dry-fhod at home. It is an age fo full of light, that there is scarce a country or corner of Europe whofe beams are not croffed and interchanged with others Knowledge in most of its branches, and in moft affairs, is like mufic in an Italian ftreet, 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, and will fo foon rife high where Nature (take her all together) has fo little to answer for and, to clofe all, where there is more wit and variety of character to feed the mind Where then, my dear countrymen, are you with going We are only looking at this chaife, faid they Your most obedient fervant, faid I, fkipping out of it, and pulling off my hat ing, faid one of them, who, quifitive traveller We were wonderI found, was an in what could occafion its motion. — 'Twas B 2 'Twas the agitation, faid I coolly, of writing a preface - I never heard, faid the other, who was a fimple traveller, of a preface wrote in a DefobliIt would have been better, faid I, in a geant. Vis à Vis. As an English man does not travel to fee. English men, I retired to my room. CALAIS. I perceived that fomething darken'd the paffage more than myfelf, as I ftepp'd along it to my room; it was effectually Monf. Deffein, the mafter of the hôtel, who had just return'd from vefpers, and, with his hat under his arm, was most complaifantly following me, to put me in mind of my wants. I had wrote myfelf pretty well out of conceit with the Defobligeant; and Monf. Deffein speaking of it, with a fhrug, 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. Deffein's honour to make the most of. Four months had elapfed fince it had finish'd its career of Europe in the corner of Monf. Deffein's coachyard; and having fallied out from thence but a vampt - up bufinefs 7 |