Additional Notes. 533 



pf less important details of information, useful to navigation 

 and geography. — See An Account of a Geographical and 

 Astronomical Expedition, Kc. by Martin Sauer. 4to. 



In the years 1790, 1791, and 1792, a voyage round the 

 world was performed in the ship Solide^ commanded by Capt. 

 Etienne Marchand, a French naval officer of reputation. 

 From this voyage resulted the discovery of a group of islands 

 in the Pacific Ocean, in tlic neighbourhood of the Marquesas^ 

 and some additional particulars of information respecting the 

 north-west coast of America. 



Dawkins ^?z<i Wood. p. 33:9. 



Dawkins and Wood travelled together in Syria. They 

 were dispatched by the Dilletanti Society, chiefly for the pur- 

 pose of exploring the ruins of Balheck and Palmijra. On 

 these they published two works, which were their joint pro- 

 ductions; and contain little more than architectural sketches 

 of buildings, with explanations. These travellers, therefore, 

 are erroneously placed among those who have rendered much 

 service to Geography. They brought to Europe little or 

 no information, strictly speaking, on this subject. 



Du Halde. p. 340. 



Jean Baptiste Du Halde was born in Paris, in 1674. 

 He was extremely well versed in Asiatic Geography. His 

 great work, entitled Grand Description de la C/iine^ et de. 

 la Tartarre, in four vols, folio, was compiled from original 

 papers of the Jesuit missionaries. He was also concerned in 

 a collection of letters begun by Father Gobien, entitled Des 

 Lettres Edifiantes^ in eighteen volumes. He died in 1743. 

 — Though he appears so familiar with the geography, scenery 

 and manners of China, he never was ten leagues from Paris 

 in his life. 



Bell. p. 340. 



Bell is mentioned, by mistake, as having visited Kamts- 

 chatka. That respectable traveller never passed through any 

 part of that country. 



