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LETTERS

OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

Lady My W——y M▬▬▬e.

Vol. I.

Montagu, Lady MARY (PierReport) Wortley,

LETTERS

OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

Lady, M—y W▬▬▬y M▬▬e ́

Written during her TRAVELS in
EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA,

то

Perfons of Diftinction, Men of Letters, &c.
in different Parts of EUROPE.

WHICH CONTAIN

AMONG OTHER CURIOUS RELATIONS,
ACCOUNTS of the POLICY and MANNERS
of the TURKS;

Drawn from Sources that have been inacceffible to
other Travellers.

A NEW EDITIO N.

To which are now firft added,

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Printed for T. CADELL, and T. EVANS, in the Strand;
J. MURRAY, in Fleet-Street; and R. BALDWIN,
in Pater-nofter-Row,

MDCC LXXXIV.

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PREFACE

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 illuftrious author had opportunities, that other travellers, whatever their quality or curiofity may have been, cannot obtain; and a genius capable of making the best improvement of every opportunity.

But if the reader after perufing one letter only, has not difcernment to diftinguish that natural elegance, that delicacy of fentiment and observation, that eafy gracefulness, and lovely fimplicity (which is the perfection of writing) and in which

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