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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1770 edition. Excerpt: ... LETTERS WRIT BY A SPY AT PARIS. BOOK IV. t LETTER I. To Hamet Reis Effendi, Principal Secretary of the Ottoman Empire. Y the mofque of Sultan Jub, . I fwear thefe petty republics of the Franks are not worth a. Muiiulman's thought. However to fatisfy thy curious and inquiiitive genius, I will fay fomething as briefly and compendioufly as I can. B In my two laft, I difcourfed of the United Netherlands, and theSwifs Cantons. Now 1 will ferry thee over the Leman Lake, and land thee in Geneva, the mother, nurfe, and center of the Cabinifh. Thefe are a fort of Proteftants, diffenting from the opinion of Luther and his aflociates, who was the firft author of what they call the Reformation here in Europe. The city of Geneva is very ancient, and was not young in the time of Julius Caefar, as appears by his Commentaries; where he makes mention of its being feated on the river Rhofne, juft at the entrance of the Leman Lake. It ftands very pleafantly, and has a fertile foil round about it; where Ceres ftrives to out-do Bacchus in her liberalities. For though/ there be very good vineyards in thefe parts, yet not in fo great plenty as to match the abundance of dorn, . pulfe, hay, oats, melons, . and all manner o herbs. and fruits.that the climate ufually bears. The air is pure and wholefome: The winter is not fo cold as in. Germany, nor the fummer fo hot as in feme parts of France.. The people are generally corpulent, morofe, . inhofpitable to ftrangers, especially to thole of the. Roman church, whom they always fufpect as fpie's.. Thty are very frugal, continent, and fober. And, . above all things, they affect. a fihgular gravity.in. their carriage and garb. As for riches, they can boaft but ftttle; and'were it not for their arty in making filks,

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T091577 The imprint to vols.3, 4 and 7 contain nine other booksellers after J. and F. Rivington, vols.5, 6 and 8 ten others. V.1 is a translation of L'Esploratore turco .. ' by G.P. Marana originally published in Paris in 1684; Subsequent volumes have been variously attributed, but were probably edited by Robert Midgley from William Bradshaw's translation of the original Italian MS. London: printed for A. Wilde, J. Brotherton and Sewell, C. Bathurst, E. Ballard, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington [and 8 others in London], 1770. 8v., plate; 12°