TRAVELS INTO _TURKEY_: Containing the most accurate Account of the TURKS, AND Neighbouring NATIONS, Their MANNERS, CUSTOMS, RELIGION, SUPERSTITION, POLICY, RICHES, COINS, _&c._ The whole being a series of remarkable observations and events, interspers’d with great variety of entertaining incidents, never before printed. Translated from the Original _Latin_ of the Learned _A. G. BUSBEQUIUS_. _With Memoirs of the Life of the Illustrious Author._ _LONDON_: Printed for J. ROBINSON, at the _Golden-Lyon_ in _Ludgate-Street_; and W. PAYNE, opposite _Durham Yard_ in the _Strand_. M.DCC.XLIV. EXTRACT OF THE LIFE OF The AUTHOR _From M. BAYLE._ That he was born in _Flanders_, educated at _Paris_, _Lorrain_, _Venice_, _Bologna_, and _Padua_; made great Progress in his Studies, having acquir’d a Knowledge in near Ten different Languages; was sometime in _London_, with the Emperor _Ferdinand_’s Ambassador; returned to _Flanders_, and from thence to _Vienna_, where he was appointed Ambassador to _Solyman the Great_, and soon set out for _Constantinople_; but not finding him there, was obliged to go to _Amasia_, &c. and during his long Stay in that Country, having a strong Propensity to Learning, collected many valuable Manuscripts, Coins, _&c._ Took great Delight in procuring rare Plants, and studying the Nature of Animals; made himself perfect Master of the _Turkish_ State, Policy, _&c._ That the Account he composed of his Journey, is a very good Work, and deserves the Approbation of all good Judges; the Learned _Sadelerius_, in his Edition of it, Printed at _Mons_, asserts it deserves a Thousand Impressions. The Celebrated _Thuanus_ owns he transcribed many Things out of it to insert in his History, and likewise gives a great Character of the Author and his Work. In short, as we have no good Account of that Country and People, an _English_ Version, ’tis presum’d, will be agreeable to the Public. N. B. _Those who are inclin’d, may see a much larger Account of the Author in ~Bayle’s~ Dictionary, ~Vol. II.~_ _Busbequius_’s TRAVELS INTO _TURKEY_. _SIR_,