To the Reader. 



his Moft Chriftian Majefty 'dying before the Book 

 was ready to appear in the World, the Duke of 

 Orleans, who now governs the Kingdom, was 

 pleas'd to permit our Author to addrefs it to 

 him : And the Account he gives him of it, is, that 

 c it is a Collection of the Obfervations which he 

 € made in Navigation, on die Errors of the Maps, 

 4 and the Situation of the Harbours and Roads he 

 € had been in ; together with a Defcription of the 

 1 Animals, Plants, Fruits, Metals, and whatfo- 

 4 ever the Earth produces of Curious, in the richefr 

 4 Colonies in the World ; and laftly, a moft exadt 

 4 Account of the Commerce, Forces, Government, 

 4 and Manners, as well of the Creolian Spaniards, 

 4 as of the Natives of the Country, whom he 

 4 treats with all the RefpeCfc which is due to 

 4 Truth.' 



Neither muft we omit any thing that is of Life m 

 the Author's Preface^ where he is more particular ; • 

 and efpecially as to the Difference between this 

 Work and Father fMWis Journal. He tells us, 

 that that Learned Monk apply'd himfelf chiefly to 

 Aftrdnomy, Botany, and other Parts of Natural 

 Philofophy ; whereas Monfieur Freziers Bufinefs 

 hath been to take Plans, and to bring the Naviga- 

 tors acquainted with the Seafons, general Winds, 

 Currents, Rocks, Shelves, Anchorages, and Land- 

 ing-Places, where-ever he came. It muft not 

 therefore feem ftrange, that the Plans of thofe two 



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