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Excerpt from Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, Undertaken by Order of the Government of France, During the First Six Years of the Republic: Volumes I and II A celebrated' author has faid that travels ought to-be written in the manner of hifiory, and not in that of romance he has proved a lelear, preeife, and energetic fiyle, that fubjee'ts the mof'f ferious and difcuflibns the mol't important, might interefi every clafs of readers, _an dt Itill'pleafe. More than-the flowery fiyle, the romantic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.