^ TRANSLATOR S PREFACE. 





In laying before the public a work of such 

 general interest, as Kotzebue's Voyage Round 

 the World, the translator does not feel him- 

 self called upon to preface it with any laboured 

 recommendation. The circumstances relative 

 to the origin and progress of the undertaking, 

 which have from time to time transpired, 

 through the public journals, have excited a 

 great desire for the publication of these 

 volumes, not merely in Germany, but in 

 England and France. The expedition was 

 known to have originated in the enlarged 

 views of that great patron of the sciences. 

 His Highness Count RomanzofF, Grand 

 Chancellor of the Russian empire, and to 

 have been fitted out with princely munifi-- 

 cence at his sole expense. The conductor of 

 the expedition was known to have already made 

 a voyage round the world, with Conunodore 

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