Download or read book Letters From Several Parts of Europe and the East, Written in the Years 1750, &C, Vol. 1 of 2 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters From Several Parts of Europe and the East, Written in the Years 1750, &C, Vol. 1 of 2: In These Are Contained, the Writer's Observations on the Productions of Nature, the Monuments of Art, and the Manners of the Inhabitants I Write to you from Geforiacum. Where, in the name of wonder, methinks I hear you fay, is that unheard-of city. Boulogne, my dear f, Frenchmen call it, but; this was palpably its name among the deified of antiquity: it may not be To well to con tinue the name which the Roman Alexander gave it. They make it the Iotios Portus of this errant heroe but the fea is running apace away from it; and, infiead of the fifty 'd gallies that once intimidated the limple inha. Bitants of thofe buildings that firetched along the banks, where now the merchants of ma ny nations live in fecurity; robably in, ther age a Gravefend boat Will be {handed ar the mole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.