David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The Church does not consist in a multitude of people.
Whoever has truth with him is the Congregation of the faithful,
though he be alone.
Sir John Chardin’s Travels, as they were the first really good accounts of foreign countries and nations, so they long retained their hold on public attention. In 1735 they were reprinted at Amsterdam, in 4 vols. 4to; and again they were brought out in 10 vols. 8vo, annotated by Langles, and published at Paris, 1811. He died in his own house on Christmas day 1712, having not long before entered his seventieth year. ”

“ The great and learned traveller Jean Chardin, son of Jean Chardin and Jeanne Ghiselin, was born at Paris 26th November 1643. His father was a rich jeweller, who by Caron was named along with a Monsieur Raisin, and both were described as très-honnestes gens et marchands très-experimentés. ”

“ The son left Paris and began his career of foreign travel in 1664; he did not return home till the summer of 1670. He printed a 12mo volume, entitled “An Account of the Coronation of Solyman III., Schah of Persia.” Seeing how dark the temporal prospects of the Protestants were, he resolved to quit his native country; accordingly on the 17th August 1671 he set out on his return to Persia, where he remained till 1677, when he turned his steps to India, and did not see Europe again till 1680. ”