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By WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, 



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KERB'S VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 



A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND 

 TRAVELS, Arranged in Systematic Order : Forming a Complete History 

 of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by 

 Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the present Time. By ROBERT 

 KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN. 



fENERAL PLAN OF THE WORK. 



PART t. 



Voyages and Travels of Discovery in the middle Ages ; from the Era of AL- 

 FRED King of England, in the Ninth Century, to that of DO \ HtiNRY 

 of Portugal, at the Commencement of the Fifteenth Century. 



PART II. 



General Voyages and Travels, chiefly of Discovery; from the Era of DON 

 HENRY, in >4l2, to that of GEORGE III. in 1760. 



PART IH. 



Particular Voyages and Travels, arranged in Systematic Order, Geographical 

 and Chronological, 



Note. This Part will be divided into Five Books, comprehending, I. Europe* 

 If. Asia. III. Africa. IV. America. V. Australia and Polynesia; or 

 the prodigious Multitude of Islands in t lie great Pacific Ocean. And all these 

 will be farther subdivided into particular Chapters and Sections, correspon- 

 dent to the Geographical Arrangements of the several Divisions of the Globe. 



PART IV. 



General Voyages and Travels of Discovery during the Era of GKORGK III. 

 which were conducted upon scientific Principles, and by which the Geogra- 

 phy of the Globe has been nearly perfected. 



PART V. 



Historical Deduction of the Progress of Navigation, Discovery, Colonization, 

 and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the earliest 1 hues to the present Pe- 

 riod. 



CONDITIONS. 



I. The work will not, it is expected, much exceed twenty volumes, handsome- 

 ly printed in octavo, with a new type, and on a fine wove demy paper. It 

 will be illustrated thoughout by a series of Maps and Charts, sufficient for il- 

 lustrating the various Voyages and Travels. 



II. It is published m numbers, or half volumes, one of which appears regularly 

 every two months, price six shillings. 



III. Kadi number contains sixteen sheets of letter-press, and two of these form 

 a full-sized volume, exceeding 5U) pages. 



*#* Nine Volumes of this Collection of Voyages and Travels are now be- 

 fore the public. The favourable reception this work has already experienced, 

 and the increasing patronage it daily acquires, while they afford a satisfactory 

 proof that UK plan and execution have been generally approved, demand the 

 grateful acknowledgments of the publisher and Editor, in proportion as the 

 work advances toward* the great commercial, colonial, and political objects 

 of the piesent eventful era, its contents will become more and more useful and 

 interesting ; and the numerous subscribers may be assured, that no. pains or ex- 

 pence shall be spared, which can render it deserving of public favour and ap- 

 probation. 



