13. Uber den Worth und Nutzen der Fussreisen. Hanover, 1805. 8vo. - We
notice this work, because it points out the superior advantages possessed
by foot travellers, in exploring the natural beauties and natural history
of a country.
II.
COLLECTIONS AND HISTORIES OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.
14. The principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the
English Nation, made by Sea or Over-land, to the remote and farthest
distant Quarters of the Earth. By Richard Hakluyt, 3 vols. fol. 1598, 1599,
1600. - This work is often incomplete; the completeness of it may be
ascertained by its containing the voyage to Cadiz, which was suppressed by
order of Queen Elizabeth, after the disgrace of the Earl of Essex. The
first volume of this collection contains Voyages to the North and
North-east: The True State of Iceland; The Defeat of the Spanish Armada:
The Victory at Cadiz, &c. The second volume contains Voyages to the South
and South-east Parts of the World: and the third to North America, the West
Indies, and round the World. It has lately been republished.
15. S. Purchas, his Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, 5 vols. folio, 1625-26. - The
first volume contains Voyages by the Ancient Circumnavigators of the Globe:
Voyages along the Coasts of Africa to the East-Indies, Japan, China,
Philippines, and the Persian and Arabian Gulphs. Vol. 2. contains Voyages
and Relations of Africa, Ethiopia, Palestina, Arabia, Persia, Asia. Vol. 3.
Tartary, China, Russia, North-west America, and the Polar Regions.
