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TION. 
OUTLINES OF 
THE GLOBE, 
OvF SVE Y. 20 Taree A Ref eee 
In this year came out a fecond edition of my Indian Zoology, 
(fee p. 9) but very confiderably enlarged by doctor Forfler’s 
effay prefixed to the German edition of that work, which was 
tranflated by doétor. 4ikin; and by a tolerably complete Fau- 
aula; a labor taken off my hands principally by the friendthip 
of the rev. Mr. Hugh Davies and Mr. Latham; the Faunula of 
infects fell to Mr. Latham, and coft him no {mall pains. 
Tuus far has paffed my active life, even till the prefent year 
1792, in which I have advanced half way of my 67th year. 
My body may have abated of its wonted vigour; but my mind 
full retains its powers, its longing after improvements, its wifh 
to receive new lights through chinks which time hath made. 
A rew years ago I grew fond of imaginary tours, and de- 
termined on one to climes more fuited to my years, more ge- 
nial than that to the frozen north. I ftill found, or fancied that I 
found, abilities to direét my pen. I determined on a voyage to 
India, formed exactly on the plan of the Introduction to the 
Ar itic Zoology; which commences at fuch parts of the north 
as are acceffible to mortals. From London I follow the coafts 
fouthera to part of our ifland, and from Calais, along the oceanic 
fhores of Europe, Africa, and Afia, till I have attained thofe of 
New Guinea. Refpecting thefe, I have collected every informa- 
ticn poffible, from books antient and. modern: from the moft 
authentic, and from living travellers of the moft refpectable cha- 
racters of my time. I mingle hiftory, natural hiftory, accounts 
of the coafts, climates, and every thing which I thought could 
inftruét or amufe. They are written on imperial quarto, and 
when bound, make a folio of no inconfiderable fize; and 
are iliuftrated, at a vaft expence, by prints taken from books, or 
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