Young, Arthur:

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TRAVELS DURING THE YEARS 1787, 1788, & 1789; UNDERTAKEN MORE PARTICULARLY WITH A VIEW OF ASCERTAINING THE CULTIVATION, WEALTH, RESOURCES, AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY OF THE KINGDOM OF ... The second edition, after the first of 1792. Young, having produced many travel narratives, left Dover for France in May 1787, returning in November. In 1788 he made another trip to France, and again in 1789, continuing into Italy and part of Spain. His massive daily journal includes his impressions and observations during his tours (pp.305-36, appended to the second volume, deal exclusively with Spain). Some of the major cities visited were Bordeaux, Paris, Versailles, Marseilles, Milan, Verona, Venice, Florence and Barcelona. The second part of the first volume is a lengthy study of French agriculture, produce, manufacture, and the revolution, the beginnings of which he witnessed in Paris and Versailles. Not in Cox.

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