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Title: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11
Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History
of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and
Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the
Present Time

Author: Robert Kerr

Release Date: March 16, 2005 [EBook #15376]

Language: English

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A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,

ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:

FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION,
DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO
THE PRESENT TIME.

BY

ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.

ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.

VOL. XI.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:
AND T. CADELL, LONDON.
MDCCCXXIV.

CONTENTS OF VOL. XI

PART II. BOOK IV. CONTINUED.

CHAP. XII.--(_Continued_.)
Voyage round the World, by Captain George Shelvocke, in 1719-1722,

SECT.
V. Voyage from California to Canton in China,

VI. Residence in China, and Voyage thence to
England,

VII. Supplement to the foregoing Voyage,

VIII. Appendix to Shelvocke's Voyage round the
World. Containing Observations on the
Country and Inhabitants of Peru, by Captain
Betagh,

Introduction,
Sec. 1. Particulars of the Capture of the Mercury
by the Spaniards,
Sec. 2. Observations made by Betagh in the
North of Peru,
Sec. 3. Voyage from Payta to Lima, and Account
of the English Prisoners at that
Place,
Sec. 4. Description of Lima, and some Account
of the Government of Peru,
Sec. 5. Some Account of the Mines of Peru and
Chili,
Sec. 6. Observations on the Trade of Chili,
Sec. 7. Some Account of the French Interlopers
in C