Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century

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This volume forms the second of three volumes under the general title of C ELEBRATED T RAVELS AND T RAVELLERS. The first volume, already published, is entitled T HE E XPLORATION OF THE W ORLD, and covers a period in the World's History extending from B.C. 505, to the close of the xviith century. The present volume extends over the xviiith century, and the third volume will give an account of the G REAT E XPLORERS AND T RAVELLERS OF THE XIXTH C ENTURY.