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Beg leave to offer you the Translation of a Work written by a learned, intelligent, and judicious Traveller, which abounds with remarkable events and curious observations; equally instructive to future navigators, and interesting to science in general, and Geography in particular.

place you occupy with great honour in the Royal Society, the zeal with which you promote and countenance whatever has a tendency towards the advance- ment