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hurry of tranfcription, the proper name 

 Samos, in Vol. I. page 1 04, has been inad- 

 vertently fubftituted in place of Le?n?70s, 

 and in page 178, line 7, from the bot- 

 tom, the words do not ought to have been 

 omitted ; and toward the conclufion of 

 Paul ajicl Virginia^ in a reference to the 

 IJle of France^ or Mauritius^ which is 

 an African Ifland, inflead of the general 

 term Colonies^ the phrafe Wejl-India 

 IJlands is improperly ufed. The names 

 of feveral Tropical vegetables, fiflies, 

 quadrupeds, and birds, in a great mea- 

 fure unknown to Europe, are exactly 

 tranfcribed, or tranflated, according as 

 the cafe required. I have, in a few 

 inflances, adopted the Author's ortho- 

 graphy of certain names of Places, in 

 preference to our own, becaufe it 

 feemed more agreeable to the eye, and, 

 at the fame time, conveyed a more di- 

 ilinél found to the Ear. If I have 



failed 



