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PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION,
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS
IN
AFRICA AND THE WEST-INDIES,
From the Year 1771, to the Year 1779 inclusive.
By HENRY SMEATHMAN.
CONDITIONS.
I. This work will be printed in Two Volumes Quarto, on the same Size, Letter, and Paper, with Captain Cook's and other late Voyages round the World; with Copper-plates, illustrating the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and the NATURAL HISTORY of those Countries.
II. The Price will be TWO GUINEAS, to be paid on Delivery of the Book sewed; or ONE GUINEA to be paid on Subscribing, and the Remainder on the Delivery of the Book, as may be most agreeable to the Subscribers, whose Names and Residence will be printed.
III. The Work will be printed as soon as a Number adequate to the necessary Expences of the Impression shall have been subscribed for.
To the PUBLIC.
The present age is not more distinguished by the great discoveries which have resulted from a spirit of enquiry after useful knowledge, than for the liberal encouragement which has been given to it, not only by the Sovereigns of Europe, particularly his present Majesty, but even by many private Gentlemen: insomuch that in no period of time have the bounds of Science been so much extended as in this century.
The relations of some late voyages which have been made, in consequence of such encouragements, under the Royal patronage, or by Gentlemen already high in the public esteem, and illustrious for their talents, have so much excited the attention of mankind, as to create a hope in the Writer of this Work, that the novelty and extent of the information, as well as the entertainment it offers, will render it deserving the patronage and encouragement of the Public.
The Continent of Africa and its Productions are little known to Europeans, and have long been objects of curiosity to philosophical Gentlemen; some few of whom, exceedingly zealous in promoting all kinds of useful knowledge, and in particular of Natural History, suggested this adventure, and enabled the Author to embark with the necessary apparatus for making collections and observations in those countries, where he resided near eight years, promoting, as far as circumstances would permit, the chief object of his Travels.
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- Henry Smeathman, the FlycatcherNatural History, Slavery, and Empire in the late Eighteenth Century, pp. 243 - 290Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2018