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ADVERTISEMENT.
ENCOURAGEMENT stimulates to perseverance, N has had this effect
on the author of the follmving toork, zoko has been induced, by ike flattering reception xvhich
the British Public have given to his former volumes, to present to it the.sequel of his Alpine
obscrvatiom, and the remaining vieivs ivhich he took in his excursions in these wonderful
districts of Nature.
Not lo7ig after his arrival in England loith his Royal Highness the DUKE of GLOUCESTER,
ivhom, at the command of his Majesty the KING of SARDIKIA, he accompanied in
his tour through Switzerland^ Italy, &c. leaving the situation zuhich, in the capacity of
hydraulic engineer, he occupied at Nice, he published his Travels through the Rhatian Alps:
to these he has since added, " Travels through the Maritime Alps, across the Col-de-Tende,
from Italy to Lyons, ^c. includijig Select Views in the South of France."
The Work he now ventures to offer to the elegant and enlightened part of the British
nation, for he is conscious that it is not suited to every pocket and every reader, may be considered
as a continuation of the latter publication, and a link connecting it with the former ;
so that the three works taken together, if they do not form a complete TABLEAU DES
ALPES, yet exhibit an account of several extensive ranges or chains of mountains, e.ttendlng
from the Mediterranean Sea to Germany.
With an earnest desire of instructing and entertaining, he has his fears of presuming too
much on the public approbation of his former labours, ajid therefore docs not send this loork
into the world, especially at the present tijne, with full confidcnce in its success;
Philosophy is not now, alas! in the highest estimation; aiid the noise of zvar, and the
hurricanes of political contention, have made the great, in general, viattentive to the sioeet
and mild invitations ivhich Nature is continually giving to man to study her works.
Perhaps he may not improperly address his book in the words of Martial:
Lib. I. Epig. 4.