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William Besley Dunsford.

1795.

the Gift of his Father.

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THE THIRD EDITION CORRECTED,

THE

FLOWERS

OF

MODERN TRAVELS;.

BEING

ELEGANT, ENTERTAINING, AND INSTRUCTIVE

EXTRACTS,

SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF

THE MOST CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS;

SUCH AS,

LORD LYTTELTON, SIR W. HAMILTON, BARON DE
TOTT, DR. JOHNSON, DR. MOORE, DR. TROIL,
ADDISON, BRYDONE, COX, WRAXALL,
SAVARY, TOPHAM, SHERLOCK,
DOUGLAS, SWINBURNE,
LADY M. W. MONTAGUE, &C. &c.

Intended chiefly for Young People of both Sexes.
By the Rev. JOHN ADAMS, A. M.

Delectando, pariterque monendo.

Travels are the most instructive School of Man...

Here you may range the World from Pole to Pole,
Increase your Knowledge, and delight your Soul;
Travel all Nations, and inform your Sense,
With Eafe and Safety at a small Expence.

VOL. I.

LONDON.

HON

SAVARY

Printed for C. and G. KEARSLEY, at JoH
HEAD, NO, 46, FLEET-STREET.

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ANON.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

No O books whatever are more instructive and entertaining than books of Travels. They are particularly well adapted to young people. They satisfy that eager thirst after knowledge, which is found very strong in early life, and they interest the mind as much as a novel. They make it usefully inquisitive, and furnish it with matter for reflection. With regard to the following selection, it is only necessary to observe, that perhaps there never was brought together, in so small a compass, in any language, a more copious collection of rational entertainment, than will be met with in these vo

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