We admire the Magnificence of ſome curious Perſons, who at a great Expence have travelled themſelves, or ſent others to the Eaſt with learned Men and Painters, to take Drawings of Ruins, or decypher Inſcriptions: But I am amazed that in an Age, in which Men ſo much affect uſeful and polite Learning, there does not ſtart up two Men perfectly united, and rich, one in Money, the other in Genius, both Lovers of Glory, and ſtudious of Immortality, one of whom ſhould be willing to ſacrifice twenty thouſand Crowns of his Fortune, and the other ten Years of his Life to make ſuch a ſerious Voyage round the World, as would recommend their Names to the preſent and future Generations; not to confine themſelves to Plants and Stones, but for once ſtudy Men and Manners; and who, after ſo many Ages ſpent in meaſuring and ſurveying the Houſe, ſhould at laſt take it into their Heads to make themſelves acquainted with the Inhabitants.
The Academicians, who viſited the Northern Parts of Europe and the Equatorial Parts of America, did it more in Quality of Geometricians than Philoſophers.
