5 Sit Additional Notes, 



Siberia, p. 340. 



For much Important information respecting the geography 

 of Siberia, we are indebted to Plenisner, commander of 

 Ochotsk, in the Russian service. He received orders from 

 the court of Russia to proceed to Anadirsk, and to procure 

 all possible information concerning the north-eastern parts of 

 Siberia, and the opposite continent. He returned to Peters- 

 burgh in 1776, and brought with him several maps and charts 

 of the north-eastern parts of Siberia, which were considered 

 as highly authentic documents, and which were afterwards 

 made use of in the compilation of the General Map of BuSt 

 sia, published by the Academy of Petersburgh in 1776. 



Siberia has also been visited during the eighteenth century, 

 and valuable information concerning the geography of that 

 inhospitable region communicated by Bell, D'Autergche, 

 Pallas, and Gmelin. 



K.^MPFER. p. 340.. 



Though K-¥.MPFER, the famous traveller in Japan f visiter] 

 that island towards the close of the seventeenth century, yet, 

 owing to his death, the account of his voyage was not pub- 

 lished till 1727, when it was laid before the public by Dr« 

 ScHEUCHZER, to whom K.4^mpfer's manuscripts were com- 

 mitted by Sir Hans Sloane. 



RuMPHius. p. 341. 



RuMPHius is erroneously mentioned as belonging to the 

 eighteenth century. He belonged entirely to the seventeenth. 



Africa, p. 343. 



Among those who have contributed to elucidate tlie geo- 

 graphy of Africa^ Mr. Ledyard is mentioned by mistake. 

 Tne fact is, he was arrested by death so soon after setting 

 out on his journey, that he cannot be represented as having 

 done any thing to improve our knowledge of that quarter ot 

 the globe. 



