Engraved by permission from a drawing of Mr. Atkinson's . GENERA BEST AN IN ALL PAI MANY OF WHICH AREN DIGESTE BY JOHN AUTHOR OF M VOLU PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST AND CADELL AND TH As the author has affumed the cha he was of that nation: But, befides t dom and severity with which he eve fufficient proof that he did not belo fever, at Aran, in Switzerland, aged The many inaccuracies which may will meet with fome apology in the der the painful and tedious illness, laft put a period to his life. And if with paffages which have the appe more are omitted, which may be fo hardly fufficient to give offence to t expunged by the tranflator, whofe VOL. VI. TRAVELS, &c. R BROTHER, Stutgart, April 3, 178 I have pitched my first camp, and intend to make excurfions from hen >the different parts of Suabia, according as opportunities offer. made it a rule to myfelf to take particular parts of Germany as middle point thence to ramble round the country till I have feen all that I think worth notic tention to study Germany thoroughly, without, however, extending my inqu e numberless landgraviates, margraviates, baronies, republics, &c. &c. As ; doing them honour enough to fay that they exift. now that I stayed fome time in Strafburg, as well for the fake of learning ttle German, as to make myself acquainted, by the help of maps and book country I mean to travel through. In this purfuit I found more affiftance tha ave expected, and it is certainly not the fault of the German geographers an s that their country is fo little known by foreigners. ус fometimes been fo kind as to allow me a genius for the obfervation of mo hers, you may reasonably expect fomething more in my letters than what yo monly met with in our French and English travellers. Thefe, indeed, hav een gentlemen, who having travelled in clofe poft-chaifes to the great court Yorick fays) they were riding poft from death, have given us the few anecdot e picked up, either at the poft-houfe, whilft they were changing horfes, or fro kers, or from their opera-girls, as true accounts of the state of manners, legi ligion, &c. of the country. who would know all orders of people, fhould mix with them all; but this ommon traveller feldom either can or will do, on the contrary, they are g ompelled to live in a narrow circle, where they hear of nothing but the ple occupations of the company; therefore, again, a man must be a ftudious tr profeffion, to enter into the peculiarities of a whole people. After all, let hi o willing, and ever fo well prepared, he will find it more difficult to know Go in any other country; for it is not here as in France, where, as all ape the ma he capital, by going thither you fee all, as it were, in the compafs of a nut-fhe any there is no town which regulates the manners of the whole, but the cou ided into a numberlefs variety of large and fmall ftates, differing from ea religion, government, opinions, &c. and which have no band of union whateve eir common language. Y You know too that I am en own country, and not to be ou You may depend on receiv an account either of a Germa vations I muft, of courfe, def broken parts of the narrative. you must have enough of in ou 'pril 3, 1780. learning to and books, iftance than raphers and on of men what you leed, have eat courts, anecdotes s, or from ers, legif but this is y are gethe pleadious tra1, let him how Ger the man nut-fhell. the counfom each whatever, You H. 's. I HOPE that you received introduction to our future corre is to you, I must nevertheless in bring yourfelf to fit down to wo As I was geting into the poft-wa and four, but Mr. B! N Whither,' fay fays I. Out upon the ftupid truth it is not worth the trouble fome stay in fome of the principa that what he called having travel Switzerland, through part of S into France again by Augsburg, U Germany behind the door of th parts of the country he had been through Germany, he had fearce "Go you,' fays he, go you; fo My company confifted of a wi was always fhaking his lips as if h fhe was hired as a governess in a nions had any peculiar charms for of the Rhine, with confidering the tertain of what they call with us M. B, and the fight of the (as I run over in my mind that tra on to the frozen fea,) in ancient Saxons, the Suabians, and the All and the Ruffians; and all this it, we difpofe of in a word that co Bas, the low countries. Les Pais many dependencies on the omnipo this but what Triftram Shandy fays way of treating all great matters.' grea |