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Vii PREFACE.
globe. With soime omissions, above stated, and which, with public en-
couragement, might easily be supplied ; and with defects and errors inci-
dent to all human productions, especially of this extent, the Editor still
hopes that it will be found the most complete collection of voyages and
travels éver laid before the Public in any age or country. It was proposed
to have prefixed an introduction, containing a short but comprehensive
history of the rise and ‘progress of discovery, from the most ancient to the
thost moderh times; but it was found as proper, and more convenient, to
resérve it as a retrospect for the last volume ; in which, without forestalling
the reader’s curiosity, it may assist ‘his recollection, like the summing up
of a cause; and may, at the same time, enable him, after the inspection of
such an assemblage of information on ’the various regions of the globe, ‘to
perceive, at one view, the progress that had been made, and the portions
that still remain imperfect. He-will also there find some observations on
the improved plan, that has been adopted by most travellers, since the pub-
lication of the voyages of the immortal ‘Cook ; and which lave rendered
many fornier accounts of too little consequence, to beat all considered in
a collection of this nature.
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