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ADVERTISEMENT. 
are here prefented with a feries of noted 
down upon the fpot, without any after additions^ 
with no ornaments of rhetoric^ with nothing to 
recommend them but the fimple form of truths and 
perhaps fome degree of accuracy. 
As the author was fo fortunate as to vifit in 
the courfe of thefe travels fome parts which had 
never previoufly been explored by EuropeanSj he 
flatters himfelf he has added a few fadts to the 
general ftock of natural and geographical know™ 
ledge. 
