Ebook A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The Index has been made as complete as possible in the hope that it may serve as a guide, not only to the contents of the book, but also to sources of further in formation. Thus even where mere mention of a place is made in the present work, it is felt that the reference may be of use to students desirous of tracing the fortunes of such a place, or the course of European intercourse with it, in the narratives of the travellers themselves. In deference to modern usage, such forms as Hudson's Bay, the Straits of Magellan, have been discarded, though at a certain expense of picturesqueness, and, in the second case, even of strict accuracy.