PLAN 
OF THE 
ASSOCIATION. 
O F the objeds of inquiry whicli engage our attention the 
moil, there are none, perhaps, that fo much excite continued 
curiohty, from childhood to age ; none that the learned and 
unlearned fo equally wiih to inveiligate, as the nature and 
hiftory of thofe parts of the world, which have not, to our 
knowledge, been hitherto explored. To this defire tbe Voy- 
ages of the late Captain Cook have fo far afforded gratification, 
that nothing worthy of refearch by Sea, the Poles themfelves 
excepted, remains to be examined; but by Land, the objefts of 
Difcovery are ftill fo vaft, as to include at leafl: a third of the 
habitable furface of the earth : for much of Afia, a ftill larger 
proportion of America, and almoft the whole of Africa, are 
Jinvifited and unknown. 
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