A

GENERAL

HISTORY AND COLLECTION

OF

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,

ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:

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.

BY

ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.

ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.

VOL. XVIII.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:

AND T. CADELL, LONDON.

MDCCCXXIV.

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"

HISTORICAL SKETCH

G161
K39

v. 18

OF THE PROGRESS OF

DISCOVERY, NAVIGATION,

AND COMMERCE,

FROM

THE EARLIEST RECORDS

TO THE

BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

BY WILLIAM STEVENSON, Esq.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:
AND T. CADELL, LONDON.