Travels in India, During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Travels in India, During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783While I acknowledge my.' heart-felt obligations to one friend, it is not confifient with myeprefent feelings to Omit the kind attentions of another. My learned friend, Dr. Gregory, by his perufal and revifion of my manufcript, con tributed greatly to leffen my apprehenfions of that ordeal to which I was about to commit myfelf, and though he infifts upon my {ta-ting, that this corrections were almof't entirely verbal, yet I cannot but be iconfcious, that, withoutthcm, the work would have appeared in a f'til'l more imperfefi fiate.After all, I am aware that I ¿and (inneed of every candid allowance 'ou the part of my readers. It is evident that the {indies abfolutely requifite to any degree of profi ciency in a liberal art, and the practice of that art'after wards as a profefiion, can leave but little leifure for the cultivation of literature and perhaps my engagements have been even more unfavourable to this object than thofe of mofi artifts. A long circumnav1gation, and the profefiional la bour required in completing the works for Captain Cook's fecond voyage, occupied me for feveral years, and a voyage to India, with my different excurfions In that country, ah forbed no inconfiderable portion of my time and attention.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.