It Is With Much Grateful Satisfaction, That The Editor Has To Acknowledge His High Obligations To The Curators And Librarians Of The Edinburgh Public Libraries, Belonging To The Faculty Of Advocates, The University, And The Writers To His Majesty's Signet, For The Communication Of Many Valuable And Scarce Materials.

Nor ought he to withhold his tribute of gratitude, on this occasion, from the liberal spirit of a private

Individual, the Reverend Henry White of Lichfield, who has most obligingly offered the use of his valuable Collection of Voyages and Travels, and other curious and scarce works connected with the subject, for assisting towards the perfection of this publication.

Having thus briefly announced the nature, plan, and object of the present work, of which this first Volume is now before the public, it only remains to say, that the Editor and Proprietor, each in his particular department, are resolved to exert their utmost endeavours, that nothing may be omitted which can contribute to render the work deserving of public approbation and extensive patronage.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

PART I.

Voyages and Travels of Discovery, from the Era of Alfred, King of England, in the Ninth Century, to the Era of Don Henry, Prince of Portugal, at the commencement of the Fifteenth Century.

CHAP. I. Discoveries in the time of Alfred, King of England, in the Ninth Century of the Christian Era.

SECT. I. Discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians, in the Ninth Century

II. Voyages of Ohthere to the White Sea and the Baltic, in the Ninth Century

III. Remarks on the situation of Sciringes-heal and Haethum, by J. R. Forster

IV. Voyage of Wulfstein in the Baltic, as related to King Alfred

IV[1]. Voyage of Sighelm to India, in the reign of Alfred, King of

V. Travels of John Erigena to Athens, in the Ninth-Century

VI. Geography of the known World, in the Ninth Century, as described by King Alfred

VII. Travels of Andrew Leucander, in the Eleventh Century

VIII. Voyage of Swanus to Jerusalem, in 1052

IX. Voyage of three Ambassadors from England to Constantinople, about 1056

X. Pilgrimage of Alured to Jerusalem, in 1058

XI. Pilgrimage of Ingulphus to Jerusalem, in 1064

II. Original Discovery of Greenland by the Icelanders, in the Ninth Century

III. Early Discovery of Winland, or America, by the Icelanders, about the year 1001

IV. Travels of two Mahometans into India and China, in the Ninth Century

V. Travels of Rabbi Benjamin from Spain to China, in the Twelfth Century

VI. Travels of an Englishman in Tartary, in 1243

VII. Sketch of the Revolutions in Tartary

VIII. Travels of John de Piano Carpini, in 1246

IX. Travels of W. de Rubruquis, about 1253

X. Travels of Haitho, Prince of Armenia, in 1254

XI. Travels of Marco Polo into China and the East; from A.D. 1260 to 1295

XII. Travels of Oderic of Portenau, in 1318

XIII. Travels of Sir John Mandeville, in 1322

XIV. Itinerary of Pegoletti, between Asof and China, in 1355

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