. Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt : during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission : also through Germany, Holland, &c. on the return to England : to which are annexed, observations on the plague, and on the diseases prevalent in Turkey, and a meteorological journal . i I :H H\\ * I 14. TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ELGIN, His Majestys Ambassador Extraordinary at the Ottoman Porte,Kc. SCc. KV. MY LORD, THE attention, so honourable toyour Lordships feelings, with which I, as we
. Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt : during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission : also through Germany, Holland, &c. on the return to England : to which are annexed, observations on the plague, and on the diseases prevalent in Turkey, and a meteorological journal . i I :H H\\ * I 14. TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ELGIN, His Majestys Ambassador Extraordinary at the Ottoman Porte,Kc. SCc. KV. MY LORD, THE attention, so honourable toyour Lordships feelings, with which I, as well asothers of our countrymen, was favoured by your Lord-ship, while in the dominions of the Grand Seignor,has excited in me sentiments of gratitude, for thepublic expression of which I hope to be forgiven. It is under this impression that I have presumedto prefix your Lordships name to a wrork, which isthe result of my observations and inquiries while inthose countries. If it should serve to record the hos-pitable and liberal conduct of your Lordship, in your IV public capacity, and the respect and esteem whichthat conduct could not fait to excite in its Author;and if, at the same time, it should in any degree, con-tribute to your Lordships amusement, it will be asubject of permanent satisfaction to MY LORD, Tour Lordships obliged Servant, THE AUTHOR. Weolwkhy April, 1S03.
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