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LETTERS,

DURING A TOUR THROUGH SOME PARTS

OF

France,

SAVOY, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY,

AND

THE NETHERLANDS,

IN THE SUMMER OF

1817.

BY THOMAS RAFFLES, A. M,

“England, with all thy faults, I fore thee still,
“My country! and while yet a nook is left,
"Where English minds and manners may be found,
* Shall be constrained to love thee.",

Cowper.

Liverpool :

PRINTED FOR THOMAS TAYLOR;
And sold by Longman, Hurst, & Co. Baldwin & Co. Law & Whittaker, Joli

Walker, Edwards & Knibb, Rest Fenner, Josiah Conder, and Williams &
Co. Loudon; Archibald Constable & Co, and Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.

BODE BA.

{

Gregory & Taylor, Printers, Castle street, Liverpool.

TO

THE HONOURABLE

SIR THOS. STAMFORD RAFFLES, KNT.

LIEUT.-GOVERNOR OF FORT MARLBRO',

&c. &c. &c.

THESE LETTERS,

DESCRIPTIVE OF SCENES

EXPLORED IN HIS SOCIETY,

ARE INSCRIBED

BY HIS OBLIGED AND AFFECTIONATE

FRIEND AND COUSIN,

THOMAS RAFFLES.