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If Voiage de ^izxti des Peres Jefuites en^oye%p^r le 
Roy aux \ndes ^ a la Chine. A Paris 1 685. 4'« 
T His is a (econd Relation of the Voiage and Embaffy 
oitho. Fremh to the King of Siam in the Year i:685j 
and being a more particular Account than the former, an 
extraftof thisj 'twas thought, might fuffice for both : That' 
waseompofed hy le Chevalier Chaumcnt the EmbalTadour^ 
and aow this by le Pere Tachart Jefuite, who was one of 
fix Fathers of his Order, that went with the EmbafTadour, 
as Miflionaries to Chwa. The whole being much interfiDerC- 
ed with matters of Religion and Ceremony, I fhall only take 
notice of fuch things as relate to Arts and Sciences, and f^ar- 
ticularly of the Aftronomicai Qbfervations made at the Cape 
of Good Hope and at Siam ; whereby the Longitudes of 
thofe places are , ftated ; following hereia the Authors me- 
thod. 
He divides his Treatife into fix Books, whereof thefirft 
contains the Voiage from Brejt to the Cape of Gcod^Hope. 
Here he gives the reafons and motives of lending this Em- 
ballie, as like wile the fix Jcfuitcs who arc Mathematicians 
and by the Kings Letters Patents are fo ftiled ; Their In- 
ftruftions being, befides their SpiritualFun£tion, to profe- 
cute the bufineG of the Reyal Jcademk of Paru ( of which 
they are admitted Members J by accurately obfervingthe 
curious things in Art and Nature, and particularly to make 
Obfervations for difcovering the Longitudes of the Places 
where they pafs ;for which purpofe they arc well provided 
with Inftruments. They failed from Brefi on the third of 
March ft. n. and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope the lafl: day 
ofMajf, taking notice by the way of the feveral remarkables 
in that Voiage, which are here too well known to need repeat- 
ing ; But mentioning the faultinefs and reftification of the 
Southern Conftellations, our Author is not willing to take 
notice of what has been done in that matter by a member 
of. 
