"رحلات من الهند إلى إنجلترا: تشمل زيارة إلى الإمبراطورية البورمية، رحلة عبر بلاد فارس، آسيا الصغرى، تركيا الأوروبية وغيرها، في السنوات ١٨٢٥-١٨٢٦، بقلم جيمز إدوارد أليكساندر" [‎٧] (٤١٢/٢٤)

PREFACE.
A young writer, who ventures for the first time before
the world, with a diffidence of his own powers and a dis
trust of his pretensions, whilst he entertains a latent hope
that his labours may not prove altogether unworthy of
public regard, is under some embarrassment with respect
to what he shall say of his work.
The author of this volume finds himself precisely in such
a dilemma. This is his first literary effort upon a large
scale; and although he is conscious that he labours under
many disadvantages, in comparison with those who have
been favoured with leisure and opportunity to cultivate
letters, owing to his having left England at an early age,
when the benefits of study and application just begin to
be perceived, and owing to the profession in which he
engaged, a profession generally hostile to literary pursuits,
yet he is equally sensible that he enjoyed facilities for
observation, especially in Persia, which do not fall to the
lot of many travellers.
The