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AUSTRIA - NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS - PETER EVAN TUR...

In the various countries wherein I have happened to be a temporary resident  I have felt great
interest in the acquisition of such knowledge as might be within my reach  with respect to the
genius and the effects of their established institutions. Without the slightest idea of
publication  I continued the same line of inquiry during my stay in the Austrian dominions.
Circumstances of a peculiar nature favoured my pursuit  and  on my last return to England  I
found myself possessed of much information  tending to elucidate a variety of points hitherto 
as it appeared to me  very imperfectly understood  and leading also to views  both as to the
government and the people  materially different from those which I had myself  in common
probably with most of my countrymen  previously entertained. Thus  in the order now adopted 
the first volume contains the Narrative of Travels  being remarks and reflections made in the
course of our journey through the most interesting parts of Bohemia  the states of Austria and
Styria  the Illyrian Provinces  and the Peninsula of Istria  - including  besides the more
prominent objects of general interest  notices of the antiquities and present condition of Pola
of the commercial ports of Fiume and Trieste  of the monastic establishments of Admont Moelk 
and Mariazell  of the mines of Idria  and of Carlsbad  Gastein  and other principal Baths  -
together with some account of the exiled royal family of France  who were then residing in the
vicinity of Prague. [...] This book is a reprint of the original published work from 1840.

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