ADVERTISEMENT 
TO THE 
SECOND EDITION. 
Tff favourable reception experienced by the 
first edition of this Work, has induced the writer 
to spare no pains in improving the present one. 
The whole has been carefully revised, and some 
parts nearly new modelled. A considerable num- 
ber of early English voyages to the western coast 
have been introduced for the first time. They 
were omitted in the last edition, as belonging 
properly to a part of the Work (Book II. chap. 4.) 
which, being executed by Dr Leyden upon a 
plan chiefly descriptive, had not embraced these 
narratives. Some persons, however, for whose 
opinion the Author entertains a particular re- 
spect, have expressed a wish to see them includ- 
ed ; and it has occurred that they might form 
not an unappropriate introduction to the narra* 
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