INTRODUCTION. 
L 
ONG Voyages have frequently 
been productive of fuch incidents 
as exceed the bounds of probability; 
fo that however fond we may be 
of thofe Authors, who in this ref- 
pect adminifter to our pleafure, by 
relating adventures of the wonder- 
ful kind, yet we are apt to be fufpi- 
eious in perufmg them, left our cre- 
dulity fhould get the better of our 
judgment. It has happened never- 
thelefs frequently, that thofe very 
Writers, whofe works at firft fight 
^ ere fufpefted of exaggeration or 
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