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THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

I hese obfervations were colle&ed during a journey, whichthe Author undertook in the years 1793 and 1794, by fpecialpermiffion of her late Imperial Majefty, for the recovery of hishealth : they appeared to him worthy of being laid before thePublic ; as they may tend to fupply deficiencies in his formerTravels, performed in the years 1768 and 1769, while theywill exhibit a view of the changes which have taken place fincethat period in feveral diftricts ; and likewife afford more correctinformation refpecling fuch provinces of the extenfive RuflianEmpire as have not hitherto been vifited, or defcribed, bytravellers. Hence, he trufts, the indulgent Public will receivethis work with that partiality which his former " Travels" haveexperienced; efpecially as he has ftudioufly omitted everytrivial circumftance, and inferted in his Journal only the mi-nutes of thofe facts, which have eluded the attention of otherobfervers.

The fecondpart of thefe Travels will contain a defcription ofthe Tauridan peninfula, commonly called the Crimea, and willbe embellifhed with various perfpe&ive views of that delightfulcountry. And, though the Author has formerly publifhed a

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