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The chace she loved; when morn, with doubtful beam,

Came dimly wandering o'er the Bothnic stream,

On Sevo's sounding sides she bent the bow,
And rouzed his forests to his head of snow.

Nor moved the maid alone, &c.

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MAVOR'S UNIVERSAL HISTORY.

ON THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER

WAS PUBLISHED,

Closely printed in Demy 18mo. embellished with an HISTORICAL FRONTISPIECE, designed by BURNEY, Price 4s. 6d. Boards; or elegantly printed on Fine Royal Paper, 6s. Boards,

VOLUME THE FIRST, OF

A UNIVERSAL HISTORY,
ANCIENT AND MODERN;

COMPREHENDING

A GENERAL VIEW OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF EVERY NATION, KINGDOM, AND EMPIRE IN THE WORLD;

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY WILLIAM MAVOR, LL.D.

VICAR OF HURLEY, IN BERKSHIRE, RECTOR OF STONES FIELD, &c. &c.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES, PATERNOSTER-ROW; W. ROBINSON, LIVERPOOL; E. UPHAM, EXETER; THOMSON AND WRIGHTSON, BIRMINGHAM; ERODIE, DOWDING, AND LUXFORD, SALISBURY; MEYLER AND SON, BATH; MOTLEY, HARRISON, AND MILLER, PORTSMOUTH; MUNDAY AND SLATTER, OXFORD; BRASH AND REID, GLASGOW; P. HILL, EDINBURGH; J. CUMMING AND M. KEENE, DUBLIN.

CONDITIONS:

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A Volume will be published regularly on the first Day of every Month, price

4s. 6d. Boards, or the fine Royal Paper, 6s.

Each Volume will be illustrated with an Historical Frontispiece, designed and engraved by an eminent Artist, representing some principal Event; and the Whole will be accompanied with a valuable set of Maps.

ADDRESS.

IT was sententionsly observed by Lord Bacon, "that History makes men wise;" a maxim too self-evident to need argument or illustration to support it. It is, indeed, from the pages of History, that we must derive all that knowledge of experience which regulates the civil, the religious, and the political establishments of modern Europe. History holds up to us a mirror, in which we may view the current of human actions from its source to its close. We seem to stand, as it were, upon a lofty eminence, watching the course of some mighty river rolling along with majesty and pride, sometimes broken into torrents, dashing its furious waves against resisting rocks, and sometimes flowing with gentle current, adorning and fertilizing the regions that it waters. The wisdom, indeed, which History gives us, transcends all other in practical utility. But it is not only as philosophers or statesmen that the page of history becomes a rich and valuable record to us: to a well-regulated mind, it serves as a memorial of moral and religious worth; it serves as a record of the Divine dispensat ons, where we may read the decrees of Providence, and see his will manifested in a long course of events, and his unerring justice and wisdom vindicated in remote results. It is in history that we see the grandeur and decline of empires, the fulfilment of prophecies, and the gradual developement of the human mind in those countries where the genius of civilization has successively planted her standard. In History too we find the great scheme of Christian revelation unfolded in all i's parts, and every where producing those resu ts which its Divine Founder and his Apostles constantly foretold. Every thing, indeed, which can be important to

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man, as a mere temporal being, may be found in History. Had historians neve: written, neither sacred nor profane, we should at this day be in utter and deplorable ignorance of all that has befallen man since the creation of the world. Nay, more-we should be in a state of degraded barbarism, brutalized and lost to all that knowledge, by which life has been rendered agreeable to ourselves, and accep table to God.

"Man," says Shakspeare," is a being of large discourse, looking before and after." But how does he look before, or how does he look after? He looks after him by the aids of those historical monuments which have come down to us, and by which he is enabled to ascertain and fix certain immutable principles of human ac tion. Man looks before him too, as the steersman does when sailing upon the wide expanse of waters, surrounded only by the sky and ocean. He anticipates and directs his course by the uuerring dictates of the compass; and the accounts of pas! ages, of departed legislators, of the origin and conclusion of wars and conquests, ef the foundations of governments, of the prosperity and decline of empires, of the doom of tyrants, aud of the prosperity of virtuous monarchs, what are all these to the generations that succeed, but a chart and compass, by which they may steer the magnificent vessel of human existence? Such is the importance of History in its grandest and most philosophical view; but as the humbler vehicle of merely satis tifying curiosity, and teaching a more selfish wisdom, it is not without strong claims upon our attention. Insensible, indeed, must that man's heart and mind be, who feels no latent wish, no eager curiosity, no instinctive anxiety, as it were, to learn! something about the destinies of the countless millions of human beings who have preceded him; who does not desire to know something about the fate of those mighty nations of the globe which have passed away, and live now only in the page of History; who does not wish to read the transactions in the lives of those men whose names are emblazoned by the pen of truth, whose virtues still excite the veneration, or whose vices still call for the execration of mankind. To him who has these feelings, (and what educated mind can be wholly without them) History presents an inexhaustible source of delight and instruction; and every attempt, therefore, to render this source more easily accessible, deserves not only applause, but must command patronage. Relying, therefore, upon those obvious grounds of success, the present Work is strongly recommended to public attention. It will be found to embrace a complete historical series of events, from the earliest records of time, down to the present period. It is peculiarly adapted for the general reader, as it happily steers a middle course between unsatisfying brevity and prolix diffu sion. While every thing that is important is retained, much that is merely calcu lated to satisfy vain and idle speculation is omitted. It contains the history c every ancient and modern nation, and forms therefore a complete library of itself portable in its shape, and yet neat and perspicuous in its type and paper.

Such persons as prefer taking the Work complete, without waiting for the monthly publication, may have it in twenty-five volumes, price 51. 12s. 6d. boards; or on fine royal paper, 71. 10s. boards.

VOL.

ANCIENT.

CONTENTS.

1. Antediluvians, Ancient Egypt, and neighbouring Nations.

VOL.

12. India, the Ottoman Empire, &c.
13. Jews, Modern Egypt, and the other
African Nations

2. Canaanites, Philistines, and Jews,--
also of the Assyrian and Babylo-14.
nian Empires

3. and 4. Greece

5. 6. and 7. Rome

8. Medes, Persiaus, Phoenicians, An

cient Syrians, &c. &c. &c.

Africa continued, and Malta
15. Portugal and Spain
16. Italy

17. Germany

18. Ditto continued, Holland, Switzerland, and Geneva

9. Pontus, Epirus, Colchis, Iberia, Al-19. and 20. England

bania, &c. &c. &c.

MODERN.

10. Arabs, Turks, and Empires founded

by them in Tartary, and the
Lower Asia, &c.

11. Moguls and Tartars, China, &c.

21. Scotland and Ireland

22. Russia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark,
and Prussia

23. France and Navarre
24. North and South America
25. Index

MAVOR'S VOYAGES AND TRAVELN.

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WAS PUBLISHED,

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A GENERAL COLLECTION

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VOYAGES AND TRAVELS;

Including the most interesting Records of Navigators and Travellers, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY COLUMBUS, IN THE YEAR 1492, TO LORD VALENTIA.

BY WILLIAM MAVOR, LL.D.

Rector of Stonesfield, in Oxfordshire; Vicar of Hurley, in Berkshire; Chaplain to the Earl of Moira and the Earl of Dumfries; Honorary Member of the Board of Agriculture; and Author of the Universal History.

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ADDRESS.

ONE of the most remarkable features by which modern times are distinguished from ancient, is that spirit of maritime discovery which has prevailed during three centuries, and that consequent extension of human knowledge which has been engrafted upon the accounts of travellers into remote regions of the earth. The geographical learning of the Greeks and Romans was confined wholly to a small part of the coast of Africa, to a considerable portion of Asia, and to a fomewhat more considerable portion of Europe; but the vast and boundless tracts of the new world were wholly unknown to them, and even that knowledge which they possessed of the other divisions of the globe, was very far from being precise or accurate. The most monstrous fables disfigured their accounts, and credulity received, with undistinguishing eagerness, truth and fable, wisdom and error. It was reserved for modern times to create, as it were, a new region in the world of knowledge; it was referved for modern times to enlarge our acquaintance with human nature, by carrying our researches into modes of life original and distinct, and separated in all their characteristics from all the systems of civilized Europe. Nor is the knowledge of mau the only science that has been extended by the progress of maritime discovery. They have all benefited by the event, in consequence of

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the various information that has been obtained relatively to the productions of na ture in the animal, in the mineral, and in the vegetable kingdoms.

Such are the advantages which have been derived by the more exalted pursuits of the human mind, from the enterprising pursuits of travellers in foreign and before unknown countries. But the amusement and instruction of the general reader has been no less advanced. It is not easy to conceive any species of reading more fascinating in itself, more calculated to give a man a general hold upon conversation, or more formed to delight the fancy, than that of Voyages and Travels. They form a most entertaining and important branch of study, considered as comprehending a description of foreign countries, and as displaying the wonders of nature in remote regions; as tracing the intellectual character, and marking the variation of customs and the shades of national manners; as defcribing the productions of art, and comparing the progressive improvements of mankind; as delineating the physical characters of the habitable globe, and displaying man, from the refined and polished European, to the dull and barbarous African; and again subdividing our inquiries into minute analogies, which escape the eye of general observation and extensive research. These are among the pleasing benefits which belong to the perusal of the works of travellers, We gather all their fruit, and incur none of their hazard: we feast upon the viands which they prepare, but know only in description the perils they have encountered in procuring them. This happy and peculiar pri. vilege has been poetically dwelt upon by Cowper:

"He travels and expatiates, as the bee

From flow'r to flow'r, so he from land to land;
The manners, customs, policy of all,
Pay contribution to the store he gleans;
He sucks intelligence in every clime,
And spreads the honey of his deep research
At his return-a rich repast for me.
He travels, and I too. I tread his deck,
Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes
Discover countries, with a kindred heart
Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes;

While fancy, like the finger of a clock,

Runs the great circuit, and is still at home."

If such be the general and undisputed advantages arising from the perusal of Voyages and Travels, little surely need be said in commendation of that plan, whose professed object it is to place these advantages within the reach of every individual, at a small and gradual expence. Confident, therefore, no less in the value, than in the importance of the present work, the patronage of the Public is warmly solieited. It will be found to contain an accurate digest of all the works that have hitherto appeared, from the era of Columbus down to the commencement of the nineteenth century. Among others, are comprised the voyages of Anson, Byron, Carteret, Cook, Thunberg, and Vancouver; and the travels of Addison, Bruce, Maupertius, Smollett, Brydone, Sonnini, Denon, Liancourt, Mackenzie, Valentia, and others: thus embracing a series more extensive than ever has been offered to the Public in any similar collection.

The contents of the several volumes will best illustrate the nature, utility, and value of this new Edition.

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1.. Explanation of Nautical Terms

Columbus's First, Secoud, Third, and
Fourth Voyages

Cabots' (J. and S.) Voyages
Americus Vesputius's Voyages
De Gama's First and Second Voyages
to the East Indies

De Cabral's Voyage to the East,
Indies

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VOL.

1. Magellan's Voyage round the World
Sir F. Drake's Voyage round the
World

Sir J. Lancaster's Voyage to the
East Indies

Sir H. Middleton's Voyage to the
Red Sea and Surat

James's Voyage for the Discovery of
the N. W. Passage to India

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