Account of his TRAVELS
Round Three Parts of the Globe.

Written by HIMSELF.

The TWELFTH EDITION, Adorned with Cuts.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

Printed for C. HITCH and L. HAWES, J. BUCK-
LAND, B. DOD, J. RIVINGTON, R. BALDWIN,
W. JOHNSTON, T. LONGMAN, T. CASLON,
S. CROWDER and Co. B. LAW and Co. and
J. MORGAN.

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HE Succefs the former Part of this WORK has met with in the World, has yet been no other, than is acknowledged to be due to the furprifing Variety of the Subject, and to the agreeable Manner of the Performance.

All the Endeavours of envious People to reproach it with being a Romance, to fearch it for Errors in Geography, Inconfiftency in the Relation, and Contradictions in the Fact, have prov'd abortive, and as impotent as malicious.

The juft Application of every Incident, the religious and ufeful Inferences drawn from every Part, are fo many Teftimonies to the good DeSign of making it public, and must legitimate all the Part that may be call'd Invention or Parable in the Story.

The Second Part, if the Editor's Opinion may pass, is (contrary to the Ufage of Second Parts) every way as entertaining as the Firft; contains as ftrange and furprising Incidents, and

as great a Variety of them; nor is the Application lefs ferious or fuitable; and doubtless will, to the fober, as well as ingenious Reader, be every way as profitable and diverting; and this makes the abridging this WORK as fcandalous, as it is knavifh and ridiculous; feeing, to shorten the Book, that they may feem to reduce the Value, they trip it of all thofe Reflections, as well religious as moral, which are not only the greatest Beauties of the WORK, but are calculated for the infinite Advantage of the READER.

By this, they leave the WORK naked of its brightest Ornaments; and yet they would (at the fame Time they pretend that the Author has fupply'd the Story out of his Invention) take from it the Improvement, which alone recom mends that Invention to wife and good Men.

The Injury thefe Men do to the PROPRIETORS of WORKS, is a Practice all honeft Men abbor; and they believe they may challenge them to fhew the Difference between that and Robbing on the Highway, or breaking open a Houfe.

If they cannot fhew any Difference in the Crime, they will find it hard to fhew why there fhould be any Difference in the Punishment.

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