p$ The VOYAGES of 
fuch as are fevered by Situation, and thereby fpreading the 
Beams of Knowledge, where-ever the Sun fpreads his. 
Thefe are things fo certain, and fo apparent, that it is im- 
poffible they fhould admit of any Difpute-, or that any Man 
fhould have his Country’s Intereft fo little at Heart, as not 
to wifh, that they were daily and hourly inculcated, in or- 
der to wear off that Ruft, which, for half an Age paft, has 
been growing upon us. 
But tho’ many of thefe Remarks are obvious enough, and 
notwithstanding our firft Collectors of Voyages, fuch as 
Hackluit and Purchds , took care to infert the Hiftory of 
Circum-navigators down to their own Times in their Works, 
yet our modern Collectors have totally omitted this •, or elfe 
■ inferted fuch V oyages promifcuoufly, and thereby deftroyed 
.that Connection, which is abfolutely neceffary for their being 
throughly underftood. Some foreign Writers, indeed, have 
given us Lifts of Circum-navigators, and intimated the Ufe- 
fulnefs of a general Hiftory of them ; and the Reafon, as I 
conceive, that this ProjeCt was by them never carried into 
Execution, is this, that molt of thofe Voyagers were Fnglijh- 
men , and confequently it was not fo eafy for them to give the 
Hiftory of their Proceedings, very few of their Journals 
having been tranflated. It was Com a juft Senfe of this, 
that I thought it neceffary to open our Collection, by lip- 
plying fo great a Defect, and giving a regular Hiftory of 
all the Voyages that have been undertaken, of this kind, in 
all Countries, and in all Ages, interfperfed with fuch other 
Voyages, as feemed to be naturally Supplements to thefe, 
and neceffary to be read with them, to complete the Dif- 
coveries that are mentioned in them. 
41. In order to render the Whole as perfect as it is pof- 
fible, and to give the Reader an Opportunity of reviewing 
at once this Series of Voyages, in the Order of Time in 
which they were made, I thought it would be proper to con- 
clude this Chapter with the following Table, which exhibits 
at once, and in the narroweft Compafs poffible, the princi- 
pal Contents of this whole Chapter ; from whence it ap- 
pears, that there have been but fifteen Csrcum-navigations 
performed. Of thele the firft was by a Spanijh Crew, un- 
der the Direction of a Portuguefe ; five have been undertaken 
by the Dutch ; and the other nine have been performed by 
Englijhmen : And of thefe Captain William Damper and 
Captain John Clipperton went each of them twice round the 
World ; which is, I think, what no other Country has to 
boaft, 
A Complete Table of all the Circum-navigators , the Ports from which they failed , the Dates of their refpebiive 
Voyages , and their Returns. 
I. Ferdinand Magellan , 
II. Sir Francis Drake , 
III. Sir Thomas Candijhe , 
IV. Oliver van Noort , 
V. George Spilbergen, 
VI. William Schovten and James le 
Maire , 
VII. The Nafau Fleet , 
VIII. Captain Cowley , 
IX. Captain William Dampier , 
X. Captain Dampier and Mr. Fun- 
nel , 
XI. Captains Rogers and Courtney, 
XII. Captain John Clipper ton, 
XIII. Captain George Shelvocke , 
XIV. Commodore Roggewein, 
XV. George Anfon, Efq; 
} 
from Seville in Spain, Aug. 10. 1519. 
from Plymouth Sound, Dec. 30. 1577* 
from Plymouth, July 25. 1586. 
from Goeree, Sept. 13. 1598. 
from the Tex el, Aug. 8. 1614. 
from the Texel, June 24. 1615. 
returned Sept. 8. 1522. 
returned Sept , i p ’ s 8 6. 
returned Sept. 9. 1J8 P 
returned Aug. 26. 1601* 
returned July i. 1617. 
returned July 1. 1617. 
from the Goeree, April 29. 1623. returned January 21. 1626J 
from Achamack in Virginia,Aug . 2 3 . 1 6 8 3 . returned October 12. 1686. 
from Achamack , Aug. 28. 1683. returned September 16. ipQlJ 
from the Downs, Aug. 9. 1703. 
from Brijlol, June 15. 1708. 
from Plymouth, Feb. 15. 1719. 
from Plymouth, Feb. 15. 1719. 
from the Texel, July 17. 1721. 
from St. Helens, Sept. 18. 1740. 
returned Augujjt 1 706, 
returned October 1. 1711* 
returned June 1722. 
returned Augufi 1. 1722. 1 
returned July 11. 1723. 
returned June 15. 1744* 
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