GENERAL

HISTORY AND COLLECTION

OF

'OYAGES AND TRAVELS,

ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER :

FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY of the origin AND PROGRESS
OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE,

BY SEA AND LAND,

FROM THE EARLIEST ages to THE PRESENT TIME.

BY

ROBERT KERR, F. R.. $. & E. Á. S. EDIX.

ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.

VOL. XVI.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by James Ballantyne and Company,

FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, SOUTH BRIDGE-STREET,
AND JOHN BALLANTYNE AND CO. HIGH-Street, Edinburgh;
J. MURRAY, Albemarle-strEET; R. BALDWIN, AND GALE
And fenner, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON ;

AND J. CUMMING, DUBLIN.

1815.