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Epic firft fix volumes of a new General Collection of Voyages and
& Travels, comprifing the Narratives of the European ‘Travellers, are
now fubmitted to the Public. The Plan of: the Editor’s Syftem of Geo-
graphy has been followed, as far as was confiftent with the different nature
of the prefent Work. In feveral Collections of this kind, it has happened
that the Voyages and Travels in Europe, by being referved to the lait, have
been either omitted, or given in {mail detached portions. The arrange-
ment here adopted has at leaft fupplied that defect, without hazarding a
fimilar imperfection in relation to any other quarter of the globe.
The difcovery of a direét maritime intercourfe with the great empire of
Ruffia, and the confequent extenfion of commerce and navigation, being
juftly regarded by hiftorians as the firft dawn of the wealth and naval
preponderance of England, it has attracted the firft attention in a national
collection. This difcovery, the moft interefting among thofe of Modern
Europe, is naturally followed by the beft deferiptions of the other coun-
tries fituated in the extremities of that part of the world, fo as to prefent
for the firft time, a connetted profpect of thofe remote regions, fo inte-
refting to the imagination from the peculiarities of their pofition and cli-
‘mate, and of the life and manners of the inhabitants.
Having thus furveyed the boundaries of Europe, the united kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland has been confidered, for the reafons detailed
in the Editor’s Modern Geography, as holding out the next claim to
notice. After this have been placed the defcriptions of France, Italy, Spain,
and other countries in the fouth of Europe, which are followed by the: beft
accounts of Germany, Denmark, Nerway, Sweden and Ruffia, with the
other northern diftricts, thus completing the feries of Voyages and Travels
relating to this important quarter of the world. As, however, this work
is intended for the general reader, a brief account of the ancient Voyages and
Travels which led the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, to what may be
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