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Brydone was born in Coldingham, Berwickshire, on 5 January 1736, the son of Robert Brydone (1687-1761), the local Church of Scotland minister, and Elizabeth Dysart.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1774 Excerpt: ... mate or constitutions; but she appeared still more surprised when I told her that we lost many of our finest women in childbed and that even the most fortunate and easy deliveries were attended with violent pain and anguish.--She lamented the fate of out ladies, andf thanked Heaven that she waft born a Sicilian. What this singularity is owing to, let the learned determine; but it is surely ond of the capital blessings of these climates, where the curse that was laid upon mother Eve seems to be entirely taken off: I don't know how the ladies here have deserved this exemption, as they have at least as much both of Eve and the serpent as ours have, and still retain their appetite, as strong as ever, for forbidden fruit.--It seems hard, that in our own country, and in Switzerland, where the women in general are the chastest in Europe, that this curse should fall the heaviest: it is probably owing to the the climate:--In cold, but more particularly in mountainous countries, births are difficult and dangerous; in warm and low places they are more easy; the air of the first hardens and contracts the fibres, that of the second softens and relaxes them. In some places in Switzerland, and amongst the Alps, they lose almost one half of their women in childbed, and those that can afford it, often go down to the low countries some weeks before they lie in, and find theii deliveries much easier. One may easily conceive what a change it must make lipon the whole frame, to add the pressure of a column of air of two or three thousand feet more than it is accustomed to: and if muscular motion is performed by the pressure of the atmosphere, as some have alleged, how much must this add to the action of every muscle!--However, if this hypothesis were true, our strength should h...
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A Tour Through Sicily and Malta, in a Series of Letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in Suffolk; from P. Brydone, F.R.S. xii, 387 pp. 8vo. Large fold-out map of Sicily and Malta precedes title page. A series of thirty-eight letters from a Scottish traveler and author who served as Comptroller of the Stamp Office, to William Beckford, referencing voyages the two undertook together in the late 1760s. Originally published in 1773, it was popular enough to see seven or eight editions during Brydone's lifetime, and helped earn Brydone membership in the Royal Society. Early editions were published in two volumes; the first one-volume edition appeared in the 1790s.William Beckford was known in his own right for A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica, a two-volume description of contemporary life in Jamaica from a planter's point of view. His son William Thomas Beckford would later write his own account of travels in Italy, entitled Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents, as well as the famous novel Vathek."This was one of the most successful works on Italian travel written in the eighteenth century and was the first important book on Sicily. Brydone considered himself something of a pioneer in this respect and the work remained popular until after the Napoleonic wars, when renewed interested in the island, as a result of the British occupation, led to the appearance of many new works. An earlier work on Sicily, by John Dryden the younger, was not published until 1776, after the success of Brydone's Tour had demonstrated public interest in the island." (Pine-Coffin 770.2)
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Brydone was born in Coldingham, Berwickshire, on 5 January 1736, the son of Robert Brydone (1687-1761), the local Church of Scotland minister, and Elizabeth Dysart.
University of Street Andrews.
In 1767 or 1768, soon after his return from Switzerland, he went abroad again with Mr. Beckford of Somerly and two others as travelling preceptor. In 1770, he made a tour with these gentlemen through Sicily and Malta, the former island being but little known to travellers of that time.
This tour forms the subiect of his book, ‘A Tour through Sicily and Malta, in a Series of Letters to William Beckford, Esq., of Somerly in Suffolk,’ published in 1773.
lieutenant was favourably reviewed, and so well received by the reading public, that it went through seven or eight editions in England in his lifetime, and was also translated into French and German. In Italy, nine years after its publication, Count Borch published a volume of ‘Letters to serve as Supplement to the Voyage in Sicily and Malta of Mr.
Brydone."
His work became popular for its descriptions, and earned the author admission to the Royal Society. Besides his work on Sicily and Malta, he was the author of some papers in the Royal Society"s Philosophical Transactions.
He held the appointment of comptroller of the stamp office.
The latter part of his life was spent in retirement. He died on 19 June 1818 at Lennel House in Berwickshire.
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