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 Parts and eatern Shores of Africa, Malabar, the Mogul's Country, the Banks of the Ganges, the Kingdoms of Siam, Pegu and Ava, China, Tartary, and above all Japan; then in the other Hemiphere, Mexico, Peru, Chili, Terra Magellanica, not forgetting the real or imaginary Patagons, Tucuman, Paraguay if poible, Brazil, in fine the Carribee Ilands, Florida, and all the Savage Countries, the mot important Part of the Whole Circuit, and that which would require the greatet Care and Attention; let us uppoe that thee new Herculees, at their Return from thee memorable Expeditions, at down to compoe at their Leiure a natural, moral, and political Hitory of what they had een; we hould ourelves ee a new World iue from their Pens, and hould thus learn to judge of our own: I ay that when uch Obervers affirmed of one Animal, that it was a Man, and of another that it was a Beat, we might take their Word for it; but it would be the Height of Simplicity to trut in thee Matters to illiterate Travellers, concerning whom one would ometimes be apt to tart the very Doubt, which they take upon them to reolve concerning other Animals.