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' TRAVELS IN BRAZICA'^ 



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PREPARATIONS FOR THE VOYAGE. — DEPARTURE. 

 FROM MUNICH; JOURNEY BY WAY OF VIENNA 



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America, which was unknown to us till within! 

 a few centuries, has, from the time of its discovery,, 

 been the object of the admiration and tlie regard^ 

 of Europe. The advantages of its situation, the 

 fertility and diversified riches of its soil, held out^ 

 equal attractions to the ijuropean colonist; and^ 

 merchant, and to the scientific inquirer. This new^ 

 country was rapidly peopled, and unfolded to our 

 view, by the active intercourse with the mother 

 country, and by the exertions of the learned men^ 

 who, animated by a laudable > emulation, en(|ea-i 



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