Travels in Turkey and back to England / By the late reverend and learned Edmund Chishull.

  • Edmund Chishull
Date:
1747
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Credit: Travels in Turkey and back to England / By the late reverend and learned Edmund Chishull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [iS] THE PREFACE. NO books are generally more entertaining and inflruB'ive, than the accounts of travels into foreign countries; and efpecially thofe, which are zvntten in the way ^Journals. For he, who reads fuch narratives, is almoft apt to fancy himfelf in company with the traveler, and to take part with him in all his adventures \ which at the fame time that they fhew the peculiar temper, cufloms, and manners of different nations, excite alfo a variety of paffions, which by their fucceffion pleafe the mind, and make the chief delight even in theatrical performances. Upon this account it is, that the Letters of Bufbequius, during his embaffy in Turkey ; and the Journies of our ingenious and learned countryman Mr, Maundrell, thro feveral parts of the fame vafl empire, which he has fo accurately defer the d; are re¬ peatedly read, and always with new pleafure, Th ere fore, when Mr. Edmund Chifhull, only Son of the late Reverend Mr. Chifhull, who was for fome years chaplain to the Fa¬ ctory of our IForfdip fid Turkey Company at Smyrna, brought to me not many months fmce the prefent Journal of his Father s Travels, defiring me to perufe it, and give him my opinion, whether it was a work worthy to be publifloed', / could not rejufe his requefl, but applied myfelf with due care to read and examine it. And 1 was the more readily induced to this, as I had thro a courfe of many years the happinefs of a perfeB acquaintance with lots father, even from his return home to his death ; and knew him, as well from his converfation, as his writings (particularly that juflly celebrated book \ °J