THE
TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES
OF
WILLIAM LITHGOW.
THE sufferings and perigrinations of this Scotsman,
who far out walked the late famous Coryate,
“seem,” says Mr. Granger, “to raise him
almost to the rank of a martyr, and a hero.” His
book being very scarce, and little known, a short
abridgment may be acceptable; in which we shall,
in general, omit his description and insert only
his adventures, After making two voyages to the
Orkney and Shetland islands, and walking over
all Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, and the
Low Countries, our author visited Paris, where
he resided ten months.
From thence, on March 7th 1609, he set out
on foot for Italy and in forty days passing through
Savoy, and over the Alps arrived at Rome.
There probably being too free and unguarded
in speech, and not observing the advice given to
Milton by Sir Henry Wotton, I PENSIERI
STRELLI, ED IT VISO SCIOITC; after a stay of
twenty-eight days he could not have escaped the
“blood sucking inquisitors,” most of whom were
