speculative enquirers to contemplate on the uncultivated
p the place of reafon, and cruelty, vice, folly, and tyranny,
y are indebted to Erovidence for many peculiar blefings;
em of religious and civil liberty handed down to them;

ace, without being the lefs admired for being fmall, so this
the effence of all the Books of Geography, Voyages, and
all felect their beauties, as a curious florift would the choi-

friſt attention to all that is novel and intereſting, we ſhall
for he who vould fill his hive, muſt gather honey from

a particle of fragrance. As from every effay on the ſub-
ſot been ſparing of our labour in felecting whatever may be
ſt deſcriptions of the fame countries, and wholly relied on
ye wineſes of what they deſcribed; and made a proper
the ſuperſitious, and thofe of perſons diſtinguihed by
neſs, and deferbe with critical accuracy.

are any circumſtances related but what are duly authen-
ting writers on the ſubject, we ſhall only obſerve, that it
rial articles which they have omitted, exploding all fabu-

comprehending every particular that is worthy of notice,
are credit to himſelf, and ſatistaction to the public. We
the liberal affiſtance we have received from ſeveral literary
aſtor, it is at leaſt equal, to any that has ever yet appeared.
aſbit, but ſhall ſubjoin a diſplay of the wonderful expanſe
aſther of immenſtity; by which the reader will become
as light, of the heat we feel, of the air we breathe, and
explained by the vicifitudes of the heavens, admire the
thofe magnitude and ſplendor evince that none but an

cil in conveying ideas of the perſons, drefs, habitations,
has undertaken the ſole management of that department
ſpence in employing the beſt artiſts; to that we do aver-
ſeen in any collective work of Geography. We do not
ment, Captain Cook's laſt voyage, as they were executed under

them as to the Prints. We ſhall only ſay, in their com-
ſefior to the late Mr. Bowen, geographer to the king.)

T. BANKES,
E. W. BLAKE,
A. COOK,
T. LLOYD.

cuffons, new inhabitants. And how engaging it
mind, in various regions, where the abfurdest pre
are fan'dified by the venerable name of religion.
of science, to the purity of our holy religion; ho
how much to heaven, and their brave ancestors, for
As paintings in miniature fet forth the true linea
work, though completed in two VOLUMES only, I
I travels, that have hitherto been published; from
ceft productions of a garden: and we flatter oursel
furnish a work more comprehenfive than any prec
every flower: and poor, indeed, is that weed whi
dject of Geography we may glean fome information
 useful or pleafing. For this purpofe we have com
perions of acknowledged veracity and good fenfe
diftingtion between the feltiments of the ignorant
their genius and learning, who examine with philo
In our hiftorical accounts a f.ia,ift impartiality is
ticated. Without attempting to point out the def
has been our bufneſs to avoid their errors, and to
tous and romantic tales.

To compofe a Syſtem of Geography replet with
is an t idertaking too arduous for any individual,
therefore flatter ourſelves, from our united efforts,
gentlemen, voyagers and travellers, that if our ſi
We ſhall not only confider this terreftrial globe
which furrounds it, and the prodigious globes that
acquainted with the nature and motions of the pla
the meteors we fee; and while the various leafons
wonders of the creation in the glorious works of
Dmnipotent Power could form them.

As the pen, in many infances, is ſo very inad
&c. neceflarily introduced in a work of this natur
and, from a conſciouſneſs of its great importance,
that, in our opinion, the engravings, &c. excel,
n ean to infuſuate that our embellilhments are ſu
the immediate ſanction of the king, and at the e
With reſpect to the Maps, the fame attention
merdator, that they are executed by Mr. Bow
who, for truth and accuracy, flands firſt in the l