284 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



It fhould feem as if the people were alhatncd 

 of their countries, and the princes of their 

 conduct Such as have given true accounts 

 have been perfecuted for their veracity . The 

 travels of Keifkr, in Europe, are the moft ef- 

 teemed, and the mofl worthy or eflimation. 

 There are fome made in other parts of the 

 world, that are very valuable. The travels of 

 Tavernier in Turkey, Perfia, Moguftan, &c, 

 are much celebrated, but the ftricT: truth does 

 not always appear manifeft in them : the me- 

 thod of valuing diamonds according to their 

 fize and weight, and the perfection of the wa- 

 ter, is the moft intereiting article they contain, 

 The travels of Chardin in Perfia, of DuHalde 

 in China, of Kasmpfer in Japan, of Shaw in 

 Egypt, of Kolbu to the Cape of Good Hope, 

 the relation which M. de la Condamine made 

 to the academy of fciences on his return from 

 America, the celebrated voyage of Lord Anfon 

 round the world, &c- are matter- pieces of this 

 kind, and may ferve as models to all who 

 fliall hereafter undertake fimilar enterprifes- 



VII. We owe to England ' the firft idea of an 

 admirable work, confiding of a vaft collection 

 of the beft relations of travels and voyages, and 

 reduced into a regular fyftem. This work 

 firft appeared at London under the title of a 

 Colle&ion of voyages and travels, in folio ; the 

 firft four volumes in 1704, and the fifth and 

 forth in 1732, and the feventh and eighth in 



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