Note 4 — Chapter IX · ERZERUM
Reading edition
Tournefort, Voyage au Levant, Paris, 1717, vol. ii. p. 279, and cp. Schillinger, Persianische und Ost-Indianische Reise, Nürnberg, 1707, 8vo, p. 81. It is a relief to read the warm sentiments of Tournefort towards Mr. Prescot (such was the name of the British agent) in contrast to the verjuice with which our contemporary French travellers think it their duty to steep their pens when speaking of English enterprise or its agents in distant lands. The contrast enables us to measure the difference between the France of Louis XIV. and that of the Presidents. ↑