Travels in Turkey, Asia Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt ...

ADVERTISEMENT.
THE Author has to regret, that several inaccuracies^
which are, however, of so trifling an import
as not to de-
range the general conclusions his intelligent reader will draw,
have found their way into the Meteorological Tables. They
have been the result of obstacles which it was impossible for
him to surmount in the very peculiar service in which he
was engaged, as well as of the frequent indispositions to which
he was subjected by the hazardous nature of that service. It
is owing to these impediments that several interruptions have
occurred in these Tables. In offering this plea, the force of
which, he is confident, will be candidly acknowledged by the
general reader, he takes an opportunity to address himself
more particularly' to the professional gentlemen into whose
hands his work may fall, on the subjeel of the Appendix.
In giving his medical notes in the state in which they were-
penned,
at the time when the diseases and incidents occurred
to which they refer, without change of the order and method
he pursued, and without the introduction of the speculative
reasonings he might have employed, he has been persuaded,
that their contents would be capable of a clearer analysis,
and a more ready deduction. If he has been misguided by
his judgment, he appeals to the purity of his intention, and
solicits, on this, as on every occasion, the candour and indul-
gence of his readers.