A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697 / [Henry Maundrell].

  • Maundrell, Henry, 1665-1701.
Date:
1749
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697 / [Henry Maundrell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE THE Author of this Ihort Journal having fometime fince fent a Copy of it into England^ only for the private Entertainment of fome of his Friends: They, finding with what a Spirit of Modefty, Ingenuity; and Truth it was written, foon refolv’d to make it Publick. Upon notice hereof given to Him, He, with fome un- willingnefs, fubmitted to their Judgment as to the Publication ; but withal defired, that the Ori¬ ginal might firft be amended by the enfuing Cor¬ rections and Additions. He had made them partly from his own review of the Papers, after they had lain cold a good while by him; partly by the Advice of fome Gentlemen of that Fa¬ ctory, who had fince gone the fame Journey, and had taken this Journal with them ; and fo gave it a new Authority by a frefli Examination of his Obfervations. But by misfortune his defign’d Al¬ terations did not arrive at Oxford, ’till the Book was almoft printed off. Wherefore the Reader is defired to accept candidly thefe following Emen¬ dations, which would have made the Work more perfect, if they could have been inferted in the