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 We admire the Magnificence of ome curious Perons, who at a great Expence have travelled themelves, or ent others to the Eat with learned Men and Painters, to take Drawings of Ruins, or decypher Incriptions: But I am amazed that in an Age, in which Men o much affect ueful and polite Learning, there does not tart up two Men perfectly united, and rich, one in Money, the other in Genius, both Lovers of Glory, and tudious of Immortality, one of whom hould be willing to acrifice twenty thouand Crowns of his Fortune, and the other ten Years of his Life to make uch a erious Voyage round the World, as would recommend their Names to the preent and future Generations; not to confine themelves to Plants and Stones, but for once tudy Men and Manners; and who, after o many Ages pent in meauring and urveying the Houe, hould at lat take it into their Heads to make themelves acquainted with the Inhabitants.

The Academicians, who viited the Northern Parts of Europe and the Equatorial Parts of America, did it more in Quality of Geometricians than Philoophers.