The Preface. 



for the Maps , the Reader will find % em very 

 exaff; And I have taken care to have the Tratts of 

 my Voyages more nicely delineated, than in the 0- 



riginaL 



I under/land hy Letters from Paris, that the 

 two Meffieurs de Pontchartrain indeavour hy 

 all means to he revengd upon me for the af~ 

 front they fay I have given 7 em in puhlifhing 

 fame tripling Stories in my Book, that ought- to 

 have heen conceal* d. 1 am likewife inform d, that 

 I have reafon to he apprehenfive of the Refent- 

 men t of fever a I Ecclefiaflicks, who pretend I have 

 infnlted God in cenfuring their Conduff. But 

 fince I expelled nothing lefs than the furious Re- 

 fentment hoth d)f the one and the other V when I 

 put this Book to the Prefs ; I had time enough to 

 arm my felf from top to toe, in order to make head 

 again fi 1 em. 'Tis my comfort, that 1 have writ 

 nothing hut what I make good hy Aathentick 

 proof? i hefides, that I could not have faid lefs 

 of 'em than I have done j for if I had not tied 

 my felf up to the direct thread of my Difcourfe, 

 I could have made Digreffions^ in which the Con- 

 duff hoth of the one and the other, would have 

 appear d to he prejudicial to the repofeof the So- 

 ciety, and the puhlick Good. I had provocation 

 enough to have treated 'em in that manner ; hut 

 my Letters being addrefs'd to an old Bigotted Re- 

 lation of mine, who fed upon Devotion, avd dread- 

 ed the influence of the Court; he ft ill hefeecljd 

 me to write nothing to him that might difohlige the 

 Clergy or the Courtiers, for fear of the intercept- 

 ing of my Letters. However ? I have advice from 

 Paris, that fome Pedants are fet % at work to lafh 



. me 



