taining a general Chart of the Pacific, the appearance of which has been postponed in order that it may embrace some late discoveries of which no authentic intelligence has as yet been promulgated.
The achievements of three circumnavigators,Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier,-seemed to deserve a more minute description than was compatible with the design of this work, and an early Number of the EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY was devoted to an account of their lives and actions. To the former impressions of that volume was prefixed a brief notice of some of the first discoveries in the South Sea, which, as it is rendered superfluous by the more ample details now given, has been withdrawn in the last edition, in order to make way for several interesting facts and illustrations, derived from various books that have appeared in Great Britain and on the Continent since it was originally issued.