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 THE first Volume of our Collection being now compleated, it may be expected, that something should be said concerning the Design and Manner of executing it.
-IT would be needless to expatiate on the Advantages of Works of this Kind. Every body knows that their Use is to preserve valuable Books from being loft, render scarce Books common, and to bring the best Authors relating to all Parts of the into one Body. This has produced so many large Collections of Voyages and Travels in various Languages as Grinæus and de Bry in Latin, Ramusio in Italian and Thevenot in French, not to mention several other smaller Collections in the same Languages. But no Nation hath published so many Books of this Sort as our own: For we have already no fewer than three large general Collections in English, Hakluyt in three Volumes Folio, Purchas in four (exclusive of his Pilgrimage) and Harris in two.
+IT would be needless to expatiate on the Advantages of Works of this Kind. Every body knows that their Use is to preserve valuable Books from being loft, render scarce Books common, and to bring the best Authors relating to all Parts of the into one Body. This has produced so many large Collections of Voyages and Travels in various Languages as ''Grinæus'' and ''de Bry'' in Latin, ''Ramusio'' in Italian and ''Thevenot'' in French, not to mention several other smaller Collections in the same Languages. But no Nation hath published so many Books of this Sort as our own: For we have already no fewer than three large general Collections in English, ''Hakluyt'' in three Volumes Folio, ''Purchas'' in four (exclusive of his Pilgrimage) and ''Harris'' in two.
-AS to Churchill's though consisting of six great Folios it is no more than an Assemblage of the Travels of about fifty particular Authors to a few Parts of the World and therefore we do not place it among the general Collections. Besides this essential Defect, the Authors made use of care, for the most Part, of very little Esteem. They seem to have been gathered without Judgment or Care, and chosen (if there was any Choice made at all) rather for their Imperfections than Merit. Some are swelled with scarce any Thing but the Transactions, and even the Disputes, of Missionaries: Others, though very bulky, consist of Matters foreign to the Subject, as Monson's naval Tracts, which take up the greater Part of the third Volume, and have no more Business in a Collection of Travels than any other naval History extant: So that the Substance, in effect, of the whole six Volumes might easily be comprized in two.
+AS to ''Churchill'''s though consisting of six great Folios it is no more than an Assemblage of the Travels of about fifty particular Authors to a few Parts of the World and therefore we do not place it among the general Collections. Besides this essential Defect, the Authors made use of care, for the most Part, of very little Esteem. They seem to have been gathered without Judgment or Care, and chosen (if there was any Choice made at all) rather for their Imperfections than Merit. Some are swelled with scarce any Thing but the Transactions, and even the Disputes, of Missionaries: Others, though very bulky, consist of Matters foreign to the Subject, as ''Monson'''s naval Tracts, which take up the greater Part of the third Volume, and have no more Business in a Collection of Travels than any other naval History extant: So that the Substance, in effect, of the whole six Volumes might easily be comprized in two.
-WHAT is still worse, the foreign Authors are very badly translated, and those employed for that Purpose have been religiously scrupulous to retain all Superstuities both in the Matter and Stile, though they have frequently made bold to mistake their Authors, Sense most egregiously and sometimes to castrate them greatly to their Disadvantage. The Part best executed in the Whole, though very dry, is the Introduction, which some People without the least Grounds, would fain persuade the Public was written by the great Mr Locke: But the manifold Imperfections of this Collection sufficiently confute that Pretence.
+WHAT is still worse, the foreign Authors are very badly translated, and those employed for that Purpose have been religiously scrupulous to retain all Superstuities both in the Matter and Stile, though they have frequently made bold to mistake their Authors, Sense most egregiously and sometimes to castrate them greatly to their Disadvantage. The Part best executed in the Whole, though very dry, is the Introduction, which some People without the least Grounds, would fain persuade the Public was written by the great Mr ''Locke'': But the manifold Imperfections of this Collection sufficiently confute that Pretence.
-NOTWITHSTANDING there are so many Collections of Voyages already extant, yet as Materials for this Purpose are continually encreasing, and new Discoveries daily made, there will always be the same Necessity from Time to Time of publishing new Collections, or, at least, Additions to the old. This occasioned Hakluyt to set-forth his second Edition, with great Improvements in 1599, ten Years after his first, Purchas to exhibit a new Work in 1625, and Harris to do the like in 1705.
+NOTWITHSTANDING there are so many Collections of Voyages already extant, yet as Materials for this Purpose are continually encreasing, and new Discoveries daily made, there will always be the same Necessity from Time to Time of publishing new Collections, or, at least, Additions to the old. This occasioned ''Hakluyt'' to set-forth his second Edition, with great Improvements in 1599, ten Years after his first, ''Purchas'' to exhibit a new Work in 1625, and ''Harris'' to do the like in 1705.
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-THE Design of these several Collectors, was to publish in one Body all the best Authors from the Revival of Commerce, and Discoveries, about the thirteenth Age, to their own Times: But to avoid swelling their Work to too great a Bulk, they were obliged to omit many of the most valuable. Hakluyt for this Reason confined himself mostly to the English Travellers: But although he wrote within fifty Years of the first Navigations of this Nation, and added two thick Volumes in his second Edition, yet he was forced to leave-out a great Number of curious Tracts, which afterwards were published by Purchas. This Collector proposed to join many foreign Authors to the English, and as he enlarged his Plan so be augmented his Volumes in Bulk and Number: Yet still be found himself greatly stinted for Room, insomuch, that to bring those he had provided within the Compass of bis four Volumes of Pilgrims, he was under a Necessity of curtailing bis Authors in such a Manner as to retrench several of their most essential Parts, and consequently to render bis Work in great Measure useless.
+THE Design of these several Collectors, was to publish in one Body all the best Authors from the Revival of Commerce, and Discoveries, about the thirteenth Age, to their own Times: But to avoid swelling their Work to too great a Bulk, they were obliged to omit many of the most valuable. ''Hakluyt'' for this Reason confined himself mostly to the English Travellers: But although he wrote within fifty Years of the first Navigations of this Nation, and added two thick Volumes in his second Edition, yet he was forced to leave-out a great Number of curious Tracts, which afterwards were published by ''Purchas''. This Collector proposed to join many foreign Authors to the English, and as he enlarged his Plan so be augmented his Volumes in Bulk and Number: Yet still be found himself greatly stinted for Room, insomuch, that to bring those he had provided within the Compass of bis four Volumes of Pilgrims, he was under a Necessity of curtailing bis Authors in such a Manner as to retrench several of their most essential Parts, and consequently to render bis Work in great Measure useless.
-THE Compilers of that which goes under the Name of Dr. Harris (for he only wrote the Dedication and Introduction) undertook, at fourscore Years Distance, in which Time Books of Voyages and Travels were confiderably multiplied, to execute the same Design in much the same Compass as Purchas had done: Or rather to give us the Shadow of a general Collection and the Skeletons of Authors, instead of the Substance; which, in effect, is the Case: For they have not only omitted a great Number of the most valuable Relations to be found in Hakluyt and Purchas, which do Honour to our Nation, as well as many of those published since they wrote, but have quite spoiled the rest by bad Abridgments: Those which Purchas had published entire, are by them miserably curtailed, and the Authors, which that Collector had mangled before, (that is all be abridged) are mangled over again.
+THE Compilers of that which goes under the Name of Dr. ''Harris'' (for he only wrote the Dedication and Introduction) undertook, at fourscore Years Distance, in which Time Books of Voyages and Travels were confiderably multiplied, to execute the same Design in much the same Compass as Purchas had done: Or rather to give us the Shadow of a general Collection and the Skeletons of Authors, instead of the Substance; which, in effect, is the Case: For they have not only omitted a great Number of the most valuable Relations to be found in Hakluyt and Purchas, which do Honour to our Nation, as well as many of those published since they wrote, but have quite spoiled the rest by bad Abridgments: Those which Purchas had published entire, are by them miserably curtailed, and the Authors, which that Collector had mangled before, (that is all be abridged) are mangled over again.
 BESIDES the above-mentioned Imperfections under which this last Collection labours, it being near forty Years since it was published, a great Number of curious Voyages and Travels have appeared, which want to be collected.
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 IT would be Time enough perhaps, when the whole Work was finished, to shew that be bad performed his Engagements, and yet the Collector is of Opinion, that this Volume affords abundant Proof, that he has fulfilled his Proposal.
-WITH respect to the first Article, he refers to the Voyages of Stephens and Raymond to East India, Windham, Lok, &c to Guinea. He conceives, that the second is already made good by every Author inserted from Hakluyt and Purchas, for they are all carefully abridged without omitting any material Circumstance, or adding Fancies of his own, which alter the Sense as has been done by the Compilers of Harris's Collection: That the third Condition is executed in Part by the Voyages of Captain Covert to the East Indies, those of Windham, Vennor &c to Guinea, omitted by Purchas: That the Journies up the Pike of Teneriffe, and the Voyages of Captain Roberts to the Cape de Verde Islands, make-good the fourth Condition, and that the fifth is performed by the Voyages of Soleyman Basha, Cada Mosto, Pedro de Sintra, and several other Translations.
+WITH respect to the first Article, he refers to the Voyages of ''Stephens'' and ''Raymond'' to East India, ''Windham'', ''Lok'', &c to Guinea. He conceives, that the second is already made good by every Author inserted from Hakluyt and Purchas, for they are all carefully abridged without omitting any material Circumstance, or adding Fancies of his own, which alter the Sense as has been done by the Compilers of Harris's Collection: That the third Condition is executed in Part by the Voyages of Captain Covert to the East Indies, those of ''Windham'', ''Vennor'' &c to Guinea, omitted by Purchas: That the Journies up the Pike of Teneriffe, and the Voyages of ''Captain Roberts'' to the Cape de Verde Islands, make-good the fourth Condition, and that the fifth is performed by the Voyages of ''Soleyman Basha'', ''Cada Mosto'', ''Pedro de Sintra'', and several other Translations.
 THE better to succeed in this last Article, we have been careful to procure the best Authors to be met with, and to search not only the great foreign Collections already mentioned for curious Tracts as have not yet been translated from them, but also the smaller: Such as those ...
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-BY this Means likewise be can best discover the fictitious Relations from the genuine, the Copy from the Original, and trace the Theft through a Series of Authors to the Fountain-Head:
+BY this Means likewise be can best discover the fictitious Relations from the genuine, the Copy from the Original, and trace the Theft through a Series of Authors to the Fountain-Head:\\
- For Instance by comparing the several Voyages and Accounts of Guinea together it appears that almost all their Authors have copied, or rather stolen, from Artus in de Bry's Collection (for they do not quote him) not excepting Bosman himself who hitherto has passed unsuspected of Plagiarism.
+For Instance by comparing the several Voyages and Accounts of Guinea together it appears that almost all their Authors have copied, or rather stolen, from ''Artus'' in ''de Bry'''s Collection (for they do not quote him) not excepting ''Bosman'' himself who hitherto has passed unsuspected of Plagiarism.\\
- Upon a Discovery of this Nature we generally take Care to point out the Freebooter and restore the Goods to their right Owners.
+Upon a Discovery of this Nature we generally take Care to point out the Freebooter and restore the Goods to their right Owners.\\
- We always pay a great Deference to the first Discoverers or earliest Writers whose Remarks we generally insert first in the Description or making them the Foundation throw those of later Authors, into the Notes in order to illustrate or confirm them.
+We always pay a great Deference to the first Discoverers or earliest Writers whose Remarks we generally insert first in the Description or making them the Foundation throw those of later Authors, into the Notes in order to illustrate or confirm them.
-OUR View, however comprehensive ,is not to insert every Relation that comes to band, the good and bad without Distinction.
+OUR View, however comprehensive ,is not to insert every Relation that comes to band, the good and bad without Distinction.\\
- On the contrary we have been careful to make Choice of the best in all Languages and not to give Place to any which was not likely to contribute to the Improvement or Entertainment of the Reader.
+On the contrary we have been careful to make Choice of the best in all Languages and not to give Place to any which was not likely to contribute to the Improvement or Entertainment of the Reader.
- However we do not always exclude an Author who is not wholly worthless: Because, though in the common Way of collecting be would prove a great Incumbrance yet in ours he might be dispatched by Help of a short Abstract and a few References under the Description of Places or Things whereby all the Remarks that may be of any Use in such Books will be preserved without clogging our Work with the Heaps of trifling Matters that accompany them in the Originals.
+However we do not always exclude an Author who is not wholly worthless: Because, though in the common Way of collecting be would prove a great Incumbrance yet in ours he might be dispatched by Help of a short Abstract and a few References under the Description of Places or Things whereby all the Remarks that may be of any Use in such Books will be preserved without clogging our Work with the Heaps of trifling Matters that accompany them in the Originals.
-HAVING given this general Account of our Scheme and its Advantages in a Work of this Nature we come next to a more particular Detail of the Manner in which it has been executed.
+HAVING given this general Account of our Scheme and its Advantages in a Work of this Nature we come next to a more particular Detail of the Manner in which it has been executed.\\
-As to the Matter it consists of two Sorts, Abstracts and Digests.
+As to the Matter it consists of two Sorts, Abstracts and Digests.\\
- The Abstracts contain the Journals of the Travels or Voyages including the Adventures of the Authors and other Occurrences with the Descriptions of Places especially when there are not Remarks of other Travellers to mix with them Each.
+The Abstracts contain the Journals of the Travels or Voyages including the Adventures of the Authors and other Occurrences with the Descriptions of Places especially when there are not Remarks of other Travellers to mix with them Each.\\
- Abstract is commonly preceded by an Introduction or literary Article wherein an Account is given of the Author ( So far as can be come at) and his Work as to its Editions, Size, and Number of Pages, the Subject or Contents.
+Abstract is commonly preceded by an Introduction or literary Article wherein an Account is given of the Author (So far as can be come at) and his Work as to its Editions, Size, and Number of Pages, the Subject or Contents.
- There is commonly added likewise a short Critic or Judgment thereon as to its Excellencies or Defects with respect to Geography History, Cuts and Maps.
+There is commonly added likewise a short Critic or Judgment thereon as to its Excellencies or Defects with respect to Geography History, Cuts and Maps.
-THE Digest contains the Remarks of several Voyagers or Travellers relating to any Country, the Inhabitants or its natural Productions incorporated together so as to form a regular Description such as that of the Canary or of the Cape de Verde Islands in this Volume already mentioned.
+THE Digest contains the Remarks of several Voyagers or Travellers relating to any Country, the Inhabitants or its natural Productions incorporated together so as to form a regular Description such as that of the Canary or of the Cape de Verde Islands in this Volume already mentioned.\\
-But although in this Part the Observations of different Persons are mixed together yet they are particularly distinguished by References to the Books from whence they were extracted.
+But although in this Part the Observations of different Persons are mixed together yet they are particularly distinguished by References to the Books from whence they were extracted.\\
- Care likewise is taken in the Abstracts to cite the Page from Time to Time for the Satisfaction of such as may have a Mind to consult the Originals.
+Care likewise is taken in the Abstracts to cite the Page from Time to Time for the Satisfaction of such as may have a Mind to consult the Originals.
 WHERE Authors agree in their Remarks on any particular Place or Thing we make one Account serve for all.