liberty and generosity, has received this Eastern refugee into her bofom, who appears to be not only a man of ingenuity, and great information as to Oriental matters, but has, I apprehend, the honour of being defcended from a family, of which one wore the crown of the Chriftian kingdom of Jerusalem some centuries ago, and others have fuffered hardships on account of their attachment to the faith of Jesus'. Befides thefe fources of information, I have confulted a variety of books, as I had opportunity, fome printed fince my first Observations; and others of an older date, but which I had had no opportunity of confulting at that time. It may not be difagreeable to fet down a catalogue of them here, in the order in which the travels were undertaken, or nearly fo. So Mofes "when he was come to years, refused to "be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, efteeming the "reproach of Chrift greater riches than the treasures of "Egypt, for he had refpect unto the recompence of re"ward." Heb. xi. Itinerarium Itinerarium Benjaminis, in feculo 12mo, Ludg. Bat. 1633. Itinerarium Sym. Simeonis, (an. 1322,) e cod. MS. in Bibliotheca Coll. Corp. Chrifti, Cantab. affervato. Cantab. 1778. Voy. de Pietro della Vallé, (an. 1614, &c,) 8 tom. a Voy. into the Levant, by Henry Blunt, Lond. 1650. Relation of a Voyage into Mauritania, by the Sieur Roland Frejus, tranf. from the French, Lond. 1671. Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mahometans, by Jof. Pitts, 4th ed. Lond. 1738. Voy. de l'Arabie Heureuse, (1708, 1709, 1710,) Amst. 1716. Journey to Mequinez, under Com. Stewart, in 1721, by Windus, Lond. 1725. Travels in feveral Parts of Turkey, Ægypt, and the HolyLand, by James Haynes, Lond. 1774. Dr. Richard Chandler's Travels in Afia Minor, Oxford, 1775, 4to. - his Travels in Greece, Oxford, 1776, 4to. Niebuhr, Defcript. de l'Arabie, Amft. & Utrecht, 1774, 4to. Voy. en Arabie & en d'autres Pays circonvoifins, tome 1re Amft. & Utr. 1776; tome zde, 1780, 4to. Irwin's Voy. up the Red-Sea, &c, 2d ed. 1780. Major Rooke's Travels to the Coast of Arabia Felix, 2d ed. Lond. 1784. Memoirs of the Baron de Tott, translated into English, 2 vol. Lond. 1785. a 4 Befides Befides fome few others, which are feldom, if ever, cited. To which might be added, Tales, tranflated from the Perfian of Inatulla of Delhi, 2 vol. London, 1768. It is not to be expected, that these two volumes I am now publishing should strike the Reader as fenfibly as the two firft: the charms of novelty must be much abated; though not quite loft. They relate, in general, to the fame topics as the preceding, and are placed under the like chapters, though I have numbered the Obfervations fo as to make one feries only, for the fake of brevity in quoting them. But though thefe Obfervations are placed under the fame general heads, my Reader will find they are not merely the fame as before, only farther amplified, confirmed, or corrected; they are most of them quite new, if I do not miscalculate, and may not only be read, I would hope, with fome pleasure, but some confiderable degree of information, as to matters not before at all touched upon. In collecting these remarks, I have, from time to time, met with feveral things in books of travels, which feemed very much to illuf trate trate certain paffages of the Claffics, which were either passed over in filence, or very unhappily explained by modern commentators of the Weft, and thofe of great reputation, and acknowledged learning. Several of these I fet down in papers apart, and defigned to have placed them as an Appendix, at the end of the second of thefe volumes; but as the Obfervations on the Scriptures took up more room than I expected, I have selected a part only as a Specimen, to fhow how agreeable it would be, for those that write notes on the Claffics, to make use of this mode of illuftrating them, as I have done with regard to the facred writings. This Specimen I would place at the close of this Preface, by which means the two volumes will be of much the fame fize. What I have faid of the Claffics, may be applied also to Jofephus and St. Jerome. The paper relating to Hector's meeting with Achilles was drawn up, on the particular recommendation of that Suffolk Clergyman I was speaking of. Indeed the notes on that paffage in Pope's Homer demonftrate, of what confequence the mode of explaining the Clas fics I am now recommending would be, on many occafions. I will only add, that I would hope I have not made too free with the indulgence of the Public, in venturing thefe two additional voJumes to the prefs; nor in adding this little Specimen of Obfervations on the Claffics. THOMAS HARMER. Watesfield, near Bury St. Edmund's, : Suffolk, May 11, 1787. C... A SHORT |