'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎6] (19/562)

VI PREFACE.
leaf!; the feveral incidents will be fet before the Reader, juft as
they flruck the Author's mind, and confequently in a more natural
arid eafy manner. JBefides, I was apprehenlive, that to have cur
tailed, or enlarged on, my original fentiments, would have given
reafon to fufped the fidelity of the whole.
Should it be obje<fied, that I have treated too minutely of
myfelf and my own concerns; l i have only to anfwer, that the
man who writes his own journey, is under a neceffity in fome
degree of making himfelf the hero of his own tale. But however
trivial many of the incidents relating to myfelf, may now appear,
at the time they happened they were felt by me with "the
moft exquifite fenfibility ; and therefore hope the infertion of them
will be either overlooked or pardoned by the candid Reader.
It becomes me to own alfo, that to enrich the FirA Book, I have
made free with fome of the Obfervations made on the Eqft Indians,
and on the Animal and Vegetable ProdudlTohs of their Country, by
my two late valuable and ingenious friends, the Rev. Mr. Cobbe
and Mr. George Thomas, whofe papers fell into my hands foon after
their deceafe. However, though fenfible of the obligation I lie
under, in having thofe Gentlemen's remarks thus fortunately blended
with my own, I fhall think myfelf fufficiently happy, if even
by fome borrowed riches and beauties, I have been able to produce
a work not altogether unworthy of the attention of the Public.
The general Map of the courfe of the River Euphrates, and of
our route through Afiatic-Turky, which is inferted in the Second
Book, muft certainly prove very acceptable to the Reader, as it
conveys an increafe of knowledge in the geography of a country
which hitherto has been but little known, and as the truth and
accuracy thereof may be entirely depended upon, being done by the
late ingenious Mr. Doidge, from his own, and the joint obferva
tions of Captain James Alms of the Royal Navy.
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