that they have laid their grounds, but to ride out in companies with prudent and staid guides, to all quarters of the land, learning and obferving all places of strength, all commodities of building and of foil for towns and tillage, harbours and ports for trade; fometimes taking fea as far as to our navy, to learn there also what they can on the practical knowledge of failing and of sea fight. These ways would try all their peculiar gifts of nature; and if there were any fecret excellence among them, would fetch it out, and give it fair opportunities to advance itfelf by, which could not but mightily redound to the good of the nation, and bring into fashion again those old admired virtues and excellencies, with far more advantage, now in this purity of Christian knowledge. if they defire to see other countries at three or four and twenty years of age, not to learn principles, but to enlarge experience and to make wife obfervations, they will by that time, be such as shall deserve the regard and honour of all men where they pass, and the

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society and friendship of those in all places, who are best and most eminent, and, perhaps, then other nations will be glad to visit us for their breeding, or else to imitate us in their own country.-MILTON.

4. CICERO did not set out on his travels until he had completed his education at home; and after he had acquired, in his own country, whatever was proper to form a worthy citizen and magiftrate of Rome, he was confirmed by a maturity of age and reason, against the impreffions of vice. In a tour the most delightful of the world, he saw everything that could entertain a curious traveller ; yet stayed nowhere any longer than his benefit, not his pleasure detained him. By his previous knowledge of the laws of Rome, he was able to compare them with those of other cities, and to bring back with him whatever he found useful, either to his country or himself. He was lodged wherever he came, in the houses of the great and eminent, not fo much for their birth and wealth, as for their virtue, knowledge and learning.

These he made the conftant companions of his travels. It is therefore, no wonder, that he brought back every accomplishment that could improve and adorn a man of sense. DR. CONYERS MIDDLETON.

5. I AM of opinion that Travels belong to Hiftory and not to Romance. I have, therefore, not described countries as more beautiful than they appeared to me; I have not represented their inhabitants more virtuous nor more wicked than I found them.COUNT DE VOLNEY.

6. It is not uncommon to meet with travellers, who are ignorant of many things in their own country, with which they might be acquainted without difficulty. The French are remarkable for this defect, and the English are far from being exempt from it. Too many of our countrymen, who go abroad, are unacquainted; not only with places remote from that in which they were born or educated, but with many things, to which they had it in their power to be familiarized from their infancy. An English

man once discovered very great furprize, when he was informed at Rome, that the church of St. Stephen, Walbrook, in London, was one of the most elegant fpecimens of modern architecture. Such ignorance exposes the traveller to the ridicule and, perhaps, contempt of intelligent foreigners; and may induce him to exprefs his admiration even of inferior productions abroad, where he may be informed that finer fpecimens of art are to be seen in his own country. HENRY KETt.

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Travelling Companions.

UCH of the fuccefs to be derived from travel depends on the choice of the tutor or Travelling Companion. He should be a grave refpectable man of a mature age. A very young man or a man of levity, however great his merit, learning or ingenuity will not be proper; because he will not have

that natural authority and perfonal dignity that will command attention and obedience. A grave and good man will watch over the morals and religion of his pupil; both of which are, according to the present * mode of conducting travel, commonly fhaken from the basis and levelled with the duft, before the end of the peregrination. A tutor of character and principle will resolve to bring his pupil home, if it be poffible, not worse in any respect than he was on his departure.DR. VICESIMUS KNOX.

2. It is vainly expected by parents, that the authority of a travelling tutor will be fufficient to prevent the indiscretion of their fon, and confine his attention to the proper objects of improvement, but admitting every tutor to be a Mentor, every pupil may not be a Telemachus.-HENRY KETT.

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your travels thefe documents I will give you, not as mine but his† practices.

* About 1794.

† His brother the accomplished Sir Philip Sidney. -Ed.