NOTES ON SIR THOMAS BROWNE'S VULGAR ERRORS.
ADDRESS TO THE READER.
Dr. Primrose,
Is not this the same person as the physician mentioned by Mrs. Hutchinson in her Memoirs of her husband?
Book I. c. 8. s. 1. The veracity and credibility of Herodotus have increased and increase with the increase of our discoveries. Several of his relations deemed fabulous, have been authenticated within the last thirty years from this present 1808.
Ib. s. 2.
Sir John Mandevill left a book of travels:—herein he often attesteth
the fabulous relations of Ctesias.
Many, if not most, of these Ctesian fables in Sir J. Mandevill were monkish interpolations.