The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. II. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Harper’s Stereotype Edition. -------------------------------- THE _LIVES_ OF CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS. -------------------------------- BY JAMES AUGUSTUS ST. JOHN. ------------------------------------ Wand’ring from clime to clime, observant stray’d, Their manners noted and their states survey’d. POPE’S HOMER. ------------------------------------ IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. ══════════════ NEW-YORK: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET, AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. ----- 1832. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _CONTENTS_. ------------------ _JOSEPH PITTON DE TOURNEFORT_. Born 1656.—Died 1708. Born at Aix—Education—Early passion for 7 botany—Philosophy of Descartes—Aversion for the study of theology—Travels in France—Spain—The Pyrenees—Taken for a robber—Publishes his first work—Commanded to travel in the East—Candia—Mount Ida—Constantinople—Black Sea—Erzeroom—Georgia—Returns to Smyrna—France—Death _DR. THOMAS SHAW_. Born 1692.—Died 1751.