Copy 1, Volume 1

A voyage to South-America describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent: undertaken by command of the king of Spain, by Don George Juan, and Don Antonio de Ulloa ... Translated from the original Spanish. With notes and observations; and an account of the Brazils / By John Adams, Esq., of Waltham Abbey ... Illustrated with plates.

  • Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795.
Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A voyage to South-America describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent: undertaken by command of the king of Spain, by Don George Juan, and Don Antonio de Ulloa ... Translated from the original Spanish. With notes and observations; and an account of the Brazils / By John Adams, Esq., of Waltham Abbey ... Illustrated with plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there is great reason to judge, from this specimen, that he must have made much deeper researches than he communicated to his Spanish friend, or, at least, than he judged expedient to communicate to the world; otherwise it is very hard to conceive upon what he grounded his notion, that, in the space of a century, ‘the people of New, would be as numerous as those in Old England, and in a condition to give law to all the nations in North America. We have, besides, some very sensible remarks upon the cod- fishery, and the advantages arising from it, as well as our disputes with the French in that part of the world. These speculations, though not always cri- tically right, deserve our notice, ane even our strict- est attention. For, however we may be at liberty to conduct our own affairs, we cannot limit the hu- mour, or controul the politics, of our neighbours ; and therefore it is of great service, to be well ac- quainted with their notions. The great importance of this subject might have been, and certainly was, discovered long ago, by our politicians of the first order; but it is now become apparent to all ranks of people, and, if the expression may be allowed, from being the object sometimes of discussions in the cabinet, is at present become the topic of vul- gar politicians. Besipes those that have been already touched, there are a great variety of curious, instructive, and pleasing incidents, in this performance, that cannot fail of giving satisfaction to the ingenious and in- telligent reader: * Such as the discussing the causes, why it never rains naturally at Lima, or “the country of Valles in Peru; the enquiries into the frequency of volcanoes in South America; the materials, if we may so speak, -of those subterraneous fires, the accidents by which they are kindled, and the conse- Q sequences