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A voyage to South America

Title

A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces , &c. on that extensive continent: undertaken, by command of the king of Spain

By

Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795

Adams, John, Esq. of Waltham Abbey.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for J. Stockdale [etc.], 1806

Edition

4th ed. Illustrated with plates.

Notes

Translation of Ulloa's Relacion historica del viage a la America Meridional.

The "Resumen historico del origen, y succession de los Incas, y demas soberanos del Perú", by Garcilaso de la Vega, found in the original, is omitted from this translation.

John Adams was not the translator of the English edition, but merely furnished the "Notes and observations" and "Account of the Brazils."

The account of the scientific work of the expedition, written by Jorge Juan y Santacilia, was published separately, Madrid, 1748, under title: Observaciones astronomicas, y phisicas hechas ... en los