General heads for the natural history of a country great or small drawn out for the use of travellers and navigators / imparted by ... Robert Boyle ...; to which is added, other directions for navigators, etc. with particular observations of the most noted countries in the world ; by another hand.
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- General heads for the natural history of a country great or small drawn out for the use of travellers and navigators / imparted by ... Robert Boyle ...; to which is added, other directions for navigators, etc. with particular observations of the most noted countries in the world ; by another hand.
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- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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- 1692.
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"General heads for the natural history of a country great or small drawn out for the use of travellers and navigators / imparted by ... Robert Boyle ...; to which is added, other directions for navigators, etc. with particular observations of the most noted countries in the world ; by another hand." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28984.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2025.
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TO THE READER.
I doubt not but it will be sufficient to recommend to you the ensuing Treatise, to know that the first and most general part of it was designed for thy Benefit, by the Ho∣nourable Mr. BOYLE, some Months before his Death, in complyance with the frequent Importunities of many curious Gentlemen, Physicians, &c. that came to visit him, who were very desir∣ous to have Directions how they might im∣prove themselves by their Travels to the best Advantage. Since that Time Ad∣ditions to it have been made, partly out of Mr. Boyle's own, and partly out of other Men's Writings, brought together, to be, as it were, under one View, for the further Satisfaction of the Ingenious; though in doing of this the Compiler has
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left himself a Liberty to insert such things as he thought might be either for the De∣light or Profit of the Curious Traveller, for whom the whole of this Treatise is designed. You have here, in the First place the General Directions, divided into such as relate to the whole Micro∣cosme, pag. 1. II. To Navigation, pag. 12. III. To Mines, pag. 18. IV. Vegetables, pag. 48.
As for particular Directions, we have begun first with Turky, pag. 58. after that Egypt, pag. 67. III. Gui∣ny, pag. IV. Poland, pag. 75. V. Hungaria and Transilvania, p. 80. VI. Suratte, p. 87. VII. Persia, 101. VIII. Virginia, pag. 102. IX. Guaiana and Brasil, pag. 106. X. The Antisles and Caribbe Islands, 109. In the End you have an Index, for the most Material Words and Things in the Treatise.
If this Treatise meet with a favorable Acceptance, we purpose to give you Vse∣ful and Pleasant Enlargments upon most of these Heads, with an Addition of New Ones, not here mention'd. Adieu▪