The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands ... newly corrected, and augmented ... Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... his miraculous discovery and delivery / [William Lithgow].

  • Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?
Date:
1640
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Credit: The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands ... newly corrected, and augmented ... Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... his miraculous discovery and delivery / [William Lithgow]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •or. ID- ' the fight and knowledge of ftrange, and unfrequented Kingdomes , fuch is the inftinft of his na turall affeftion. Navigation hath often united the bodies of Realmes to¬ gether ; but Travaiie hath done much morejfor firft to the A&oritgiveth the impreflion of underftandingi, experi¬ ence, patience, and an infinite treafure of unexperimable vertues: fecondly,it unfoldeth to the World the govern¬ ment of States, the authority and difpofitiop of Kings and Princes $ the fecrets, manners, cuftomes,and religions of all Nations and People. Andlaftly, bringech fatisfafti- on to the home-dwelling man, ofthefe things he would have feene, and could not attempt. Travel! hath beene in more requeft amongft the Ancients,than it is now with us in the latter Age. Philofophers, Poets, Hiftoriogra- phers, aud learned Divines, how they have perigrinated to know the life of States,and the faih'ions of farre Coun¬ tries, would be an endlefle taske for me briefely to relate. Many (I confefle) long to iee the remoteft Region of the Earth, but dare not nndertake the dangers of fight, the chargeable expences of a Tributary journey, the hard indurance offlint ftones for a foft Feather-bed,the extre¬ mities of third, nor the parching heate of the Sun,hunger inthebelly, nor themoifcdidillingdewtobeea humide Coverlet to their tender skinne,wkh innummerabk other infuingmiferies. But Jx/0#-like,mifraking Inno0 would byameere imagination,run out the deeping courfe of an endlefle peregrination.For my part,what I have reaped is by a deer bought knowledge,as it were,a fmall content- ment,in a never contenting fubjeft,a bitter plealanttafte, ofa fweet-feafoned fowre,and all inall,what I found, was more then ordinary rejoycingjin an extraordinary forrow of delights. But novy to leave the contemplation of attempts, to come