The letters in the first 60 pages purport to be written from Gibraltar and Lisbon; such of the others as were written by Mehemet, from Philadelphia.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing pr

A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler’