Excerpt from The Wonders of the East: Or the Record of a Journey Through Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land These considerations led him to make a tour of the East - an account of which was published at the time in a series of Letters in the Methodist Re corder._, The favorable manner in which they were received, and the earnest solicitations of numerous friends to put them in a more permanent form, have led to the publication of the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.