The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan, Vol. 3

Of his literary character the public is the impartial judge, and that public not only in this, but in foreign countries has fixed on it the {lamp ofapprobation. Bleffed with a me mory the mof't retentive, his powers of compofition were rapid his works were generally printed, as they flowed from the pen, with little or no correction, hence, fome in accuracies may be expected, but their numbers are trifling.

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Excerpt from The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan, Vol. 3

An objection may be made by fome, that no plates adorn there volumes - engravings, except of novel objects, or really illuftrative, and fuch, notwithflanding much exertion, it was not my good fortune to procure, tend little to the value of a work of fcience. Two maps, prefumed more requifite, have been confirué'ted from the bef't materials The biography of the valued Author of the following fheets, having been given by himfelf in his Literary Life, to the commencement of the year 1793, little remains for me to add. To that period his health and felicity had ex perienced little interruption; the illnefs of an amiable daughter then began to embitter his days, and, after the mofl.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.