pable to make them, but had leisure, that being his only business, and money to carry him through. In fine, he has an excellent brief collection of hiftory annexed to every part of his travels, which informs the reader of the ancient as well as the prefent ftate of the countries there fpoken of. He is exact for the most part in fetting down the diftances of places, a great help to future travellers. His account of plants and fruits peculiar to the Eaft and Weft-Indies, with the draughts and reprefentations of them, is a good help to natural hiftory, together with his other defcriptions, and his obfervations of customs, manners, habits, laws, religions, and all other things in thofe vaft regions he paffed through. In particular, what he lays in that part of his voyage which is from Aquapulco till his leaving the continent of America, is, befides what is in Gage, almoft the only account we have of the inland parts of that continent. There is a preface to the work which gives a full account of it.

II. An account of the fhipwreck of a dutch veffel on the coaft of the ifle of Quelpaert, which happened in the year 1653, together with the defcription of the kingdom of Corea. This was originally writ in dutch by one that calls him!elf the secretary of the fhip then loft, who lived thirteen years in those countries, and at last made his efcape with fome others. It was thought worthy to be tranflated into french, and now laftly into english. 'Tis the only account yet extant of the kingdom of Corea, which lies on the east of China, being a peninfula joined to that mighty empire by a fmall neck of land: and it is no wonder we fhould be fo very much strangers to this country, fince befides its remotenefs, the author tells us they admit of no ftrangers; or if any have the misfortune as he had, to fall into their hands, they never return home, unlefs they can make as wonderful an escape as he did. The relation itfelf has a particular preface annexed to it by the tranflator, to which the reader is referred.

III. Next follows a relation of a voyage from Spain to Paraguay, about 1691, by F. Antony Sepp, and F. Antony Behme, german jefuits; with a defcription of that country, the remarkable things in it, and refidences of the miffioners. We have a particular account of their voyage; they landed at Buenos Ayres, of which town they give a very good description, and of the great river of Plate which runs by it; and proceeding up into the country from Buenos Ayres, they treat diftinctly of the feveral cantons of Paraguay.

IV. After this is placed a fragment tranflated out of spanish, concerning the islands of Salomon in the South-fea, difcovered by the fpaniards about 1695, but hitherto never conquered or inhabited by any european nation. It was inferted in Thevenot's collection of voyages. Both the beginning and conclufion are wanting; which, it feems, have perished through the negligence of thofe intrufted with the original papers. However, by good

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fortune, as much has been preferved, as ferves to give us fome knowledge of those islands, and of the nature and difpofition of their inhabitants. And becaufe fo little is known of thofe places, this fragment was judged not unworthy a place in this collection.

V. The history of the provinces of Paraguay, Tucumany, Rio de la Plata, Parana, Guaira, Urvaica, and Chili; was written in latin by F. Nicholas del Techo a jefuit. The antecedent account of Paraguay by F. Sepp, has lightly touched upon part of this fubject, but that only relates to one of the provinces here named; whereas this extends from the North to the South-fea, and includes all that vast tract of land in America, lying fouth of Peru and Brafil. The greatest part of thefe countries have not been fo fully described, nor the manners and cuftoms of thofe favage indians fo fully made known, as they are by this author, who spent no lefs than twenty-five years among them. But to avoid repetitions, what more is performed in this work may be seen in the particular preface before it.

VI. Pelham's wonderful prefervation of eight men left a whole winter in Greenland 1630, is the fixth treatife in this volume. The prefervation was indeed very remarkable, especially confidering how unprovided they were left of all neceffaries for wintering in fuch a difmal country, it being accidental and no way defigned. This narrative has nothing of art or language, being left by an ignorant failor, who, as he confeffes, was in no better a post than gunner's mate, and that to a greenland fifher; and therefore the reader can expect no more than bare matter of fact, delivered in a homely ftyle, which it was not fit to alter, left it might breed a jealoufy that fomething had been changed more than the bare language.

VII. Dr. John Baptift Morin's journey to the mines in Hungary, about 1650, is a very fhort relation of thofe mines, the ore they afford, the damps, the fprings in them, the miners, the manner of discharing the water, and other particulars relating to them.

VIII. Ten-Rhyne's account of the Cape of Good Hope, about 1673, and of the hottentots, the natives of that country, is very curious. After a fhort defcription of the cape and table mountain, he describes the birds, beafts, fishes, infects, and plants found in that part of the world; and then fuccinctly treats of people, their perfons, garments, dwellings, furniture, difpofition, manners, way of living, and making war, traffic, fports, religion, magiftrates, laws, marriages, children, trades, phyfic, and language.

IX. The fourth volume concludes with captain Richard Bolland's draught of the ftraits of Gibraltar, in 1675, and his obfervations on its currents.

ableness of chriftianity, 264.His difcourfe on the refurrection of the fame body, 276 -Mr. Locke's concern for him, ibid.

Bolingbroke (earl of) his charac535

ter, Books, feem to infect all who trade in them, 291 Bookbinders, a great fault in our english binders, ibid. Bookfellers, their character, ibid. Brazil difcovered, 391 Brewer, or Brower's voyage, 505 Bridgewater (John Egerton, earl of) his character, 234 Broughton, his pfychologia, 266 Brutes, why fome philofophers

make them mere machines, 283 Buckingham (George Villiers, duke of) his character, 239 Burlington (Richard Boyle, earl of) his character, Burrough's (Steph.) voyage to Nova Zembla, 379 Button's (fir Thomas) voyage, 475

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Candith's (fir Thomas) voyage, 497 Canons (of the church of England) vid. Laud.

Cape Verde difcovered, 387

of Good Hope discovered,

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tions,

America,

his expedi

423, 429, 432 difcovers

424

372

376

505

Compass, invention of the,
variation of the,
Cook's (John) voyage,
Corporations, the defign of the
act for regulating corporations
in 1661,
Cortes (Ferdinand) conquers Mex-
ico,
441
Crew (John, lord) his character,

Carlisle (Charles Howard, earl DAMPIER

his character, 241 Carnarvon (Charles Dormer, earl of) his character, ibid. Carolina, laws and conftitutions for it, drawn up by Mr. Locke, 175 Catalogue and character of books

of voyages and travels, 513, &c.

201

241

D.

AMPIER's (capt.) voyages, 489, 505 Davis's (John) voyages, 468, 469, 470 Declaration of indulgence in 1671, 204

De la Mer (George Booth, lord) his character, 235 Denbigh (Bafil Fielding, earl of)

Drake's (fir Francis) voyage, 494 GALLEYS of the ancients, 369

Henry VI. a weak prince, taken prifoner by Edward IV. 223

Falconberg (Thomas Bellafis, Hog's-fhearing, what they call fo