Of the RIGHT HONOURABLE Lady My W▬▬y M▬▬e : -y Written during her TRAVELS in EUROPE, ASIA AND AFRICA, ΤΟ Persons of Distinction,Men ofLetters, etc. WHICH CONTAIN, Among other CURIOUS RELATIONS, ACCOUNTS ofthe POLICY and MANNERS Drawn from Sources that have been inaccessible to A NEW EDITION. PARIS: Sold by THEOPHILUS BARROIS junior, Bookseller, M. DCC. XC. BY A LADY. Written in 1724. I WAS going, like common editors, to advertise the reader of the beauties and excellencies of the work laid before him. To tell him that the illustrious author had opportunities, that other travellers, whatever their quality or curiosity may have been, cannot obtain; and a genius capable of making the best improvement of every opportunity. But if the reader, after perusing one letter only, has not discernment to distinguish that natural elegance, that delicacy of sentiment and observation, that easy gracefulness, and lovely simplicity (which is the perfection of writing ) and in which these Letters exceed all that has appeared in this kind, or |