text:  What should we say to any other work composed on the same principle? What if Milton after the speech of Satan in _Paradise Lost_ were to treat us to an account of his last dinner; or Shakspeare after the scene of the bones in Juliet were to tell us of the damp sheets in which he slept last night; or Gibbon after working up the enthusiasm of his readers by the account of the storming of Constantinople by the Crusaders was to favour us with a digression on the insolence of the postilions in Roumelia? All the world would see the folly of this: and yet this is precisely what is constantly done by travellers and tolerated by the public because it is founded on nature