AN PUBLISHED BY M. AND J. CONRAD, AND CO. R. CARR, PRINTER. ............ CONTENTS. TRAVELS of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia, PAGE 1 TRAVELS OF JAMES BRUCE, ESQ. INTO ABYSSINIA, TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773. THE veil of suspicion, which was early thrown over Mr. Bruce's travels, can never be removed, till some person of equal enterprise and independence pursues the same career, and retraces his steps. This we cannot speedily hope for. Few possess his resolution, and fewer still are animated with a desire of risking life and fortune in a field where novelty ceases to invite, and interest cannot stimulate. A kind of fatality attended Bruce. He was suspected of imposture, without a motive, save vanity, to justify the charge; his pride, or, as some will think, his prudence, prevented him from entering into explanations which might have dispelled the shades of doubt; and he left the world without reaping the reward due to his discoveries, if real; or suffering that ignominy which a clear detection of romance would deservedly have drawn on him. Some of his most extraordinary positions, however, have been confirmed by the evidence of |