Excerpt from Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M-Y W-Y M-E, Vol. 2 of 2: Written During Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &C. In Different Parts of Europe; Which Contain, Among Other Curious Relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks Who has wrote with equal ignorance and confidence 'tis a pa'icular pleafure to me here, to read the voyages to the Levant, which are generally {0 far removed from truth, and [0 fall of abfurdities, I am very well diverted with them. They never fail giving you an account of the women, whom, 'ris certain, they never faw, and talking very wifely of the genius ofthe men, into whofefcomyaany they m' never admitted; and very often dea fcn'be marques, which they dared not even pew into. The Turks are very proud, and will not converfe witha {tranger they are not a'fi'ured is confiderable in his own country. I final: of the men of dil'tinfiion; for, as to the ordinary fellows, you may imagine what ideas their couverfation can give of the gene m1 genius of the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.