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PREFACE 



T O T H E 



READER 



S the Accounts of Voyages and Tra- 

 vels are univerfally well received and 

 efteem 'd, if drawn up with a due Re- 

 gard to Truth ; it is no wonder that 

 of Monfieur Frezier to the South Sea, and along the 

 Coafts of Chili and Peru, fo little known to all the 

 Europeans except the Spaniards, Ihould be well 

 approved of in France and Holland, in the French 

 Tongue : Efpecially, if it be confider'd, who the 

 Author of it is, and what his Performance. 



As for the firft of thefe, the late French King, 

 Lewis XIV. who owed the Brighteft Part of his 

 Glory, and his Grandeur, to his Encouragement 

 of the Arts and Sciences, and to his lingular Judg- 

 ment in the Choice of fit Perfons to improve them, 



A having 



