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of Crutwell, Scott, and the rev. Dr. Morse, are 

 among the latest and best in our language. 



Unprecedented pains have beai taken, during 

 the period under consideration, to collect into re- 

 gular series of volumes those accounts of voyages 

 and travels ^\\\q\\ might serve to give a connected 

 view of the condition of the globe, and of the ac- 

 tivity and adventures of distinguished men in ex- 

 ploring distant countries. The collections of this 

 nature formed by Harris, Campbell, Churchill, Sal- 

 mon, Guthrie, Hawkesworth, and Dalrymple, of 

 Great Britain ; by des Brosses, of France; by 

 Estala, of Spain ; and many others ; hold an im-. 

 portant rank among the instructive and amusing 

 productions of the age. 



The discoveries and improvements above stated,, 

 beside correcting and enlarging our geographical 

 knowledge, have also led to many and important 

 additions to the stock of general science. There is 

 scarcely any part of natural philosophy, or natural 

 history, which has not received considerable im- 

 provement from this source. New light has been 

 thereby shed on the doctrines of the tides and liie 

 zvinds : the nature and laws oi magnetic variation 

 have been better understood ; the sciences of zo'u- 

 logy^ botany, and mineralogy, have been greatly, ex- 

 tended and advanced ; immense collections of na- 

 tural curiosities have been made from every knovvii 

 region of the earth ; and, what is by no means of 

 least importance, opportunities have been afiTorJeil 

 of studying human nature in a grtjat variety of 



