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The preface to this work describes how its authors, Charles Irby (1789-1845) and James Mangles (1786-1867), both officers in the Royal Navy, left England in 1816 for a tour of the continent.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.