Excerpt from Travels Round the World, Vol. 1: In the Years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771

It was never my intention to submit to the criticism of strangers the faults and imperfections of my style, which, I confess, has often appeared defective to myself; and nothing but your authority could have engaged me in the design of putting my crude diary in order. Mons. le Comte de Buffon and you have, unfortunately perhaps for me, over-ruled my judgment.

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