Excerpt from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order, Vol. 1: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Perhaps it may occur to some readers, that Pant V. The last in order of the general heads of our plan, ought to have formed part I. As partaking of the nature of an introduction to the subject, and forming a summary of the whole work. Upon even a very slight consideration, however, it must be ob vions, that it is impossible to compose that proposed deduction in any adequate manner, until the whole mass of selected materials is possessed by the Edi tor, and definitively arranged. It may likewise be known to many, that introductions and prefaces, though usually placed at the beginning of books, are uniformly and necessarily last composed, and usually last printed, except in new editions. A great variety of Collections of Voyages and Tra vels have been published at different periods, many of which are inaccessible from their scarcity, or from being in foreign languages: And such great num bers of Voyages and Travels to particular regions and countries have been printed, as to be altogether un attainable by the generality of readers. Every thing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.