A voyage to the South-Sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards ... / By Monsieur Frezier ... Illustrated with 37 copper-cutts of the coasts ... printed from the author's original plates ... With a postscript by Dr. Edmund Halley ... And an account of the settlement, commerce, and riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay.

  • Amédée-François Frézier
Date:
1717
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A voyage to the South-Sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards ... / By Monsieur Frezier ... Illustrated with 37 copper-cutts of the coasts ... printed from the author's original plates ... With a postscript by Dr. Edmund Halley ... And an account of the settlement, commerce, and riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE TO THE E S the Accounts of Voyages and Tra¬ vels are univerfally well received and efteem’d, if drawn up with a due Re¬ gard to Truth ; it is no wonder that of Monfieur Frezier to the South Sea, and along the Coafts of Chili and Peru, fo little known to all the Europeans except the Spaniards, fhould be well approved of in France and Holland, in the French Tongue : Efpecially, if it be confider’d, who the Author of it is, and what his Performance. As for the firft of thefe, the late French King, Lewis XIV. who owed the Brighteft Part of his Glory, and his Grandeur, to his Encouragement of the Arts and Sciences, and to his lingular Judg¬ ment in the Choice of fit Perfons to improve them, A having
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