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 THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF William Lithgow.

THE sufferings and perigrinations of this Scotsman, who far out-walked the late famous Coryate, “seem,” says Mr. Granger, “to raise him almost to the rank of a martyr, and a hero.” His book being very scarce, and little known, a short abridgment may be acceptable; in which we shall, in general, omit his discriptions, and insert only his adventures, After making two voyages to the Orkney and Shetland islands, and walking over all Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, and the Low Countries, our author visited Paris, where he resided ten months.

From thence, on March 7th 1609, he set out on foot for Itily, and in forty days passing through Savoy, and over the Alps arrived at Rome. There probably being too free and unguarded in speech and not observing the advice given to Milton by Sir Henry Wotton, I pensieri stretti, ed it viso sciolto; after a stay of twenty-eight days he could net have escaped the “blood-sucking