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Excerpt from Letters, During a Tour Through Some Parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands, in the Summer of 1817
17 I could have met the wishes of my friends in any other way than by the publication, of these Letters, they had never seen the light. But after many attempts and long delay, I found it impracticable, and, therefore, with much hesitation and reluctance, I committed them to the press. My intention at first was mere ly tapri'at, not to publish them, hoping thus to es cape the charge of obstinacy from my friends, and that of presumption from the public; but I soon perceii'ed that the plan of private cir culation would only involve me in innumerable didie ulties, and lat length found myself com pelled to publish. Thus I am unintentionally and unexpectedly placed in a new character, that of a tourist, before the tribunal of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
