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A30142	Balfour, Andrew, Sir, 1630-1694.	Letters write [sic] to a friend by the learned and judicious Sir Andrew Balfour ... containing excellent directions and advices for travelling thro' France and Italy, with many curious and judicious remarks and observations made by himself, in his voyages thro' these countreys, published from the author's original m.s.	1700		.xml	application/xml	53002	1437	63	You may hire Horse● to Orange , which is but half a days Journie up the River . This Gentleman had a particular Genie inclining him to studie Natural History , and all the wayes and means , how to improve the Arts , most usefull to his Countrie ; He had studied the Mathemathicks , & delighted much in the practical part of them , & employed much of the Revenue of that plentifull Estate He had from his Ancestors , in purchasing Instruments , & Curious Books , which treated on these Subjects , He having Travelled over a great part of this Country , in searching after the Plants that grew wild up and down in it , & withall having read severall writers on the Plants , he every Year sent for new Seeds of foreign Plants : He inclosed a considerable Parcel of Ground , in which He trained them up with great Skill ; and before He 〈◊〉 to his Travells , He had of domestick and foreign Plants , growing in his Garden at Livingstone , above a Thousand : He was above thirty six Years of Age before He began his Travells , and had fitted himself by reading of Voyages , and such Books as might best inform him of what He was to inquire for , in foreign Countries , ye● He was so sensible of the great Advanta●●● 〈◊〉 that Learning Sir Andrew Balfour 〈◊〉 ●●●ster of , that He not only inform●d 〈…〉 him of the best Books , fitted 〈…〉 and the designe He had to Learne all that might be for the improving of knowledge , & of the Arts usefull to this Country , but likewise He obtained his promise to intertain a Correspondence with him whilst He was in foreign Countries , by Letters , upon all Occasions .	cache/A30142.xml	txt/A30142.txt
