ftock-book in moft of the cir

culating libraries in England.

Within these four years,

that reverend joker, the facetious Mr. Shath obliged the world with fomewhat of a fort of an itinerary; which though a little deficient ac-. cording to the vulgar method,. yet I could with from my foul that the generality of travellers were but half as entertaining.

And lately we have been further obliged with the travels of Dr. S and of furgeon S neither of which works have I any intention of criticifing for two reasons--

the

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the first flowing from gratitude, as I confefs they gave me pleasure in the reading; the fecond from modefty, as I do not apprehend that any thing I have to offer can merit fuch favourable reception with the public.

• But what's all this to the purpofe?' fays fome impatient

critic

I will tell you

how far it is

to my purpose---it is to fhew the reader that travelling is the mode, and that it is no less the mode to print travels--that short travels may be

printed as well as long voyages; and whether at home, or abroad, it matters not---and that as I don't remember any apology was made by the Portsmouth traveller for ftuffing two large volumes in octavo, fometimes with trite remarks, and most commonly with no remarks at all, during eight days upon three of the neighbouring counties of England; fo I fhall not offer any for obtruding a couple of Shandean duodecimos with fuch as I have been able to make during two months, in five of the finest provinces in the Nether

lands.

CORIAT

CORIAT JUNIOR.

VOL. I.

CHA P. I.

Journey from London to Dover.

MY companion and I fet off from Μ

the Swan with two necks in Lad-Lane, London, in one of the Dover ftages, on Saturday the 6th of September, 1766-but as the road from thence to Dover is well known to many of my readers, I fhall not take up their time unneceffarily in defcribing it. A 5

Our

Our company in the coach was a little emblem of the great world in this respect, that we meet with many per◄ fons in our daily avocations, but very rarely with one who is of consequence enough to be distinguished, or to conAitute a character.

It confifted of a Deal Pilot, a Kentish Hop-planter, a young Midshipman belonging to the Navy, and a Country fporting Squire.

Almost every occurrence in life is a leffon of instruction, and it is our own fault if we do not improve it to advantage-so that barren of improvement as this company might appear, it was a great pleasure to me to find, by converfing with each in his own way, that the hills and fands which we meet with upon that road were not at all tedious; and that the distance from London to Dover is fo far from being a long,

that