"We mean not to bring it into competition with any of the more useful ends of travelling: but as many travel without any end at all, amusing themselves without being able to give a reason why they are amused, we offer an end, which may possibly engage some vacant minds; and may indeed afford a rational amusement to such as travel for more important purposes."
Three Essays
<u>Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape: to Which Is Added a Poem, on Landscape Painting</u>. (London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004863369.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;