TRAVELS IN TURKEY AND BACK TO ENGLAND. By the late Reverend and Learned _EDMUND CHISHULL_, B. D. Chaplain to the FACTORY of the Worshipful TURKEY COMPANY at _SMYRNA_. [Illustration] _LONDON_, Printed by _W. Bowyer_ in the Year MDCCXLVII. [Illustration] THE PREFACE. _No books are generally more entertaining and instructive, than the accounts of travels into foreign countries; and especially those, which are written in the way of_ Journals. _For he, who reads such narratives, is almost apt to fancy himself in company with the traveler, and to take part with him in all his adventures; which at the same time that they shew the peculiar temper, customs, and manners of different nations, excite also a variety of passions, which by their succession please the mind, and make the chief delight even in theatrical performances._ _Upon this account it is, that the_ Letters _of_ Busbequius, _during his embassy in_ Turkey; _and the_ Journies _of our ingenious and learned countryman Mr._ Maundrell, _thro several parts of the same vast empire, which he has so accurately described; are repeatedly read, and always with new pleasure_. _Therefore, when Mr._ Edmund Chishull, _only Son of the late Reverend_ Mr. Chishull, _who was for some years chaplain to the_ Factory _of our Worshipful_ Turkey Company _at_ Smyrna, _brought to me not many months since the present_ Journal _of his Father’s_ Travels, _desiring me to peruse it, and give him my opinion, whether it was a work worthy to be published; I could not refuse his request but applied myself with due care to read and examine it. And I was the more readily induced to this, as I had thro a course of many years the happiness of a perfect acquaintance with his father, even from his return home to his death; and knew him, as well from his conversation, as his writings (particularly that justly celebrated book of his_ Antiquitates Asiaticae) _to be not only a man of uncommon learning, but likewise of great sagacity, and indefatigable diligence_. _And indeed my pains in the perusal of these papers were very well rewarded. For besides an agreable amusement common to other writings of this nature, they gave me very useful instruction as to several passages in ancient historians, and other classic authors; and at the same time illustrated many old inscriptions, several of which are now first published, and others taken with greater exactness, than had been done formerly._