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THE

DIARY OF AN INVALID

BEING THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR

IN PURSUIT OF HEALTH

IN PORTUGAL ITALY SWITZERLAND
AND FRANCE

IN THE YEARS 1817 1818 AND 1819

BY HENRY MATTHEWS ESQ. .M.

FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

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BLIOTHEQUE CANTONAL

LAUSANNE
ST UNIVERSITAIRE

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH, BELL YARD,

TEMPLE BAR.

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PREFACE.

THE following pages may seem to require some apology, being, as they are, the transcript of a Journal written to amuse the hours of indisposition, without any idea of publication.

From these materials, I was induced, upon my return to England, to begin an account of my travels in a more serious. and sustained style of composition; but my work was arrested by hearing, from those to whose judgment I have deferred, that I was labouring only to deprive my Journal of almost all that made it interesting in its original form;-like an indifferent artist, whose finished picture has often less to recommend it, than his first rough sketch from nature. Though this may be no excuse for

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