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Voyage to Benin, vii. 331. Whales, notices respecting, xv. 4. note. Whiddon's Voyage to the Azores. vii. 358. Windham's Voyage to Guinea, vii. 216. Wood, Benj., Voyage to the East Indies, viii. 40. Wulfstan's Voyage to the Baltic, i. 15. Z Zenos' Voyage, i. 438. GENERAL PLAN OF KERR'S COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. PART I. Voyages and Travels of Discovery in the middle ages; from the era of Alfred King of England, in the ninth century, to that of Don Henry of Portugal, at the commencement of the fifteenth century. PART II. General Voyages and Travels, chiefly of Discovery; from the era of Don Henry in 1412, to that of George III. in 1760. PART III. General Voyages and Travels of Discovery during the era of George III., which were conducted upon scientific principles, and by which the Geography of the globe has been nearly perfected. PART IV. Historical Deduction of the Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest times to the present period. TABULAR VIEW OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SEVENTEEN VOLUMES. * * * * * VOLUME I. Discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians. Voyages of Ohthere to the White Sea and the Baltic. Remarks on the situation of Sciringe-heal and Haethum, by J.R. Forster. Voyage of Wulfstein in the Baltic. ---- of Sighelm to India. Travels of John Erigena to Athens. Geography of the known world as described by King Alfred. Travels of Andrew Leucander. Voyage of Swanus to Jerusalem. ---- of three ambassadors from England to Constantinople. Pilgrimage of Alured to Jerusalem. ---- of Ingulphus. Original discovery of Greenland by the Icelanders in the ninth century. Early discovery of America by ditto, in 1001. Travels of two Mahometans into India and China, in the ninth century. ---- of Rabbi Benjamin from Spain to China, in the twelfth century. ---- of an Englishman in Tartary, in 1243. Sketch of the Revolutions in Tartary. Travels of Carpina to the Moguls, &c. in 1246. ---- of Rubruquis into Tartary about 1253. ---- of Haitho, in 1254. ---- of Marco Polo into China, &c. from 1260 to 1295. ---- of Oderic, in 1318. ---- of Sir John Mandeville, in 1322. Itinerary of Pegoletti between Asofand China, in 1355. Voyages, of Nicolo and Antonio Zeno, in 1380. Travels of Schiltberger into Tartary, in 1394. ---- of the Ambassadors of
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