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ADVERTISEMENT. 
In the following pages^ the reader is not pre- 
fcnted with a romance under the title of a book 
of travels. It would not have been very difficult 
to have depidled an Arcadia among the defarts of 
Africa ^ or to have afcribed all the delicacy and 
refinement of Athens to the inhabitants of Caf- 
fraria. It is fcarcely an eafier taffi to obferve than 
to invent; and the embellilhments of the clofet are 
frequently known to furniffi out a very fpecious 
publication from very (lender materials. 
In producing the prefent work, none of the 
common arts of compilation have been employed 5 
but this circumftance it is prefumed will not leflcii 
its value in the eyes of rational perfons : fince 
what it lofes in entertainment it gains in authenti¬ 
city. The public may depend upon it, that they 
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