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FROM

PORTUGAL, SPAIN,

ITALY AND GERMANY,

IN THE YEARS 1759, 1760, AND 1761.

BY CHRISTOPHER HERVEY, Esq.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

LONDON:

PAINTED BY J. DAVIS, CHANCERY LANE; FOR

R. FAULDER, NEW-BOND-STREET.

M.DCC.LXXXV.

as my firft and introductory letter to the strict correspondence you have defired. The writing fo much is no trouble, for as I shall do it without confidering what I write, I do it likewise without difficulty.

I am

You know already that the papers to fend you are to be upon any fubject, as it is the liberty you allow in writing, that makes them no trouble. You are to confider thefe productions as a ftrange mixture of incoherences; among which, however, you may chance to find fome little matter that fuits your taste. All I engage for, is to daub a fheet of paper over with a black fluid called ink; reducing it into certain hieroglyphical characters called letters; which letters fhall be put together into little packets called words; and this is all I promife: referving to myself the full and abfolute power of writing in what language or ftyle I please; intelligible or not; good, bad, or indifferent. In confequence of this agreement, you may expect to hear from me next week, and fo on, if I am well, till my return to England.

LE T