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What does Francis Bacon find ironic about diary-keeping and travel?

I've been trying to figure this out but the way he writes kind of leaves me at a loss.
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"English philosopher, Francis Bacon, noted in his essay "Of Travel," written over 400 years ago, that during sea voyages when there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, travellers keep diaries, but on land journeys, where there is so much to be observed, they hardly even keep notes. (Bacon also noted "Travel, in the younger sort, is part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.)"... Show More
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