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To the counsel and assistance of those eminent antiquaries, Messieurs Jenkins, Morrison, and Byers, I owe the greatest part of my original drawings of ancient instruments; and to their active friend- ship I likewise owe much of the pleasure and information which I received at Rome.
And now, having acknowledged these debts to my countrymen, I must again say, that the men of learning and genius among the Italians have, throughout my journey, treated me with the utmost hospitality and kindness, each seeming to strive who should most contribute to my information and amusement. For, ex- cept the civilities with which I was ho- noured at Venice and Florence by Mr. Richie, Sir Horace Mann, and Messieurs Perkins and Hempson, I owe all my in- formation and entertainment, till my ar- rival at Rome, to the Italians themselves. Indeed, it was to them that I chiefly ad- dressed myself, thinking it most profit-
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