Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2

Before we enter upon a recital of the great expeditions of the eighteenth century we shall do well to chronicle the immense progress made during that period by the sciences. They rectified a crowd of prejudices and established a solid basis for the labours of astronomers and geographers. If we refer them solely to the matter before us they radically modified cartography and ensured for navigation a security hitherto unknown.