A Voyage to South-America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces &C. on That Extensive Continent; Interspersed Throughout with Reflections on the Genius, Customs, Manners, and Trade of the Inhabitants; Together with the Natural History
A Voyage to South-America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces &C. on That Extensive Continent; Interspersed Throughout with Reflections on the Genius, Customs, Manners, and Trade of the Inhabitants; Together with the Natural History
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Excerpt from A Voyage to South-America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces &C. On That Extensive Continent; Interspersed Throughout With Reflections on the Genius, Customs, Manners, and Trade of the Inhabitants; Together With the Natural History of the Country After doing jufiice to the authors, let us now come to the work itfelf. In pieces of this kind, there is generally fpeaking, no part fo tedious and unpleafant, at leali to the generality of readers, as what regards occurrences at fea, and yet thefe are allowed to have their utility. In the following fheets however, tho' they are found pretty copioully, we {hall find them without thofe defects. If thefe wri-j ters mention the variation of the compafs, they explain the nature, enquire into the caufe, and ibew, the ufes that arife, from obferving this Phenome-j non. In the fame manner, they treat of calms, ' winds, currents, and other incidents, in fo fuccin???l: and fcientific a method, that at the fame time they are very infiru???tive, and nor unentertaining. In this refpe???t, we may look upon their narratives, as'a fort of pra???tical introduction to the art of navigation, ' which we not only read without difgufit, but which when read with any tolerable attention, will en able us to underfiand many pafi'ages, in other voyage writers, which we lhould otherwife pafs over, as nu terly uninterel'ting and unintelligible. This obfer vation, the reader will find fo fully verified, from his own experience, that I am confident he will think it no fmall recommendation, to the book; and the more fo, becaufe though very necefi'ary, and much wanted, the difficulties attending it, had hi therto in a great meafure, difcouraged any fuck attempt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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