Fol. - The First Edition,
When Complete, Is By Far The Most Valuable.
Several dissertations have been
published on this work, which is generally called Les Grands et Petits
Voyages.
In 1742 the Abbe de Rothelin published Observationes sur des
Grands et Petits Voyages. In 1802 Camus published Memoire sur la Collection
des Grands et Petits Voyages; and Debure, in his Bibliographe, has devoted
upwards of one hundred pages to this work. Whoever wishes to ascertain
exactly the best edition, should consult these authors, and the
Bibliotheque des Voyages, vol. 1. 57.
III.
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS ROUND THE WORLD.
Boucher de la Richarderie, the author of the Bibliotheque Universelle
des Voyages, makes some just remarks on the nature and extent of those
voyages to which this appellation is usually applied. He observes that
for the most part, by a Voyage round the World, is understood a voyage
either by the Atlantic Ocean or the Indian Sea to the Pacific or Great
Southern Ocean, the visiting the isles in the last, exploring the
Antarctic Seas, and returning by the route opposite to that by which the
ship went out. This certainly is a voyage round the world, though
probably scarcely any part of Asia, Africa, or America has been explored
or visited, except for the purposes of refitting or provisioning the
ship. But when these quarters of the globe, and especially the unknown
parts of them, have been visited, the application of the term, though
not perhaps so correct verbally, is more justly made.
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