Copy 1, Volume 1

Travels in Greece and Turkey, undertaken by order of Louis XVI. And with the authority of the Ottoman court / by C.S. Sonnini ... Tr. from the French.

  • Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels in Greece and Turkey, undertaken by order of Louis XVI. And with the authority of the Ottoman court / by C.S. Sonnini ... Tr. from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a ” nature. Eayprt, independently of the in- tereft and the noble curiofity infpired by the ftill-impofing ruins of its ancient magnifi- 7] informed man, be a portion of the globe very important from the excellence of its foil, the falubrity of its climate, and its sah ate ee pofition. | And when our age fhall be for polteren a. point of antiquity, hiftory will prefent, as tion, the enterprife of a powerful and gene- rous people, who, under the direction of a great leader, a man of genius, were defirous that Eeyrr fhould become their new do- main, and their richeft and moft flourithing colony: a vaft and bold plan, alternately the objeGt of praife and blame, to which: were wanting, to infure its fuccefs, only circum- preliminary combinations, but the end of which was a certain and incalculable increafe On my return from Upper Ecypr, I ar- a. * T have fet forth the numerous advantages, the ne- Travels in that country, which I publithed laft year.