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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Although he had never set foot in Africa, Scottish poet and
linguist John Leyden (1775-1811) decided to publish in 1799 this
compilation on 'discoveries and settlements' there, drawing from
the published works of explorers. His aim was 'to exhibit the
progress of discoveries at this period in North and West Africa',
giving descriptions of places such as Guinea, the Gold Coast, and
Sierra Leone, as well as accounts of their people. He begins the
work by discussing a meeting of the African Association on 9 June
1788, where a map depicted the interior of the continent as 'an
extended blank'. Leyden attempts to provide information on those
unknown areas by using the travel accounts of writers - including
the Scots explorer Mungo Park - who had ventured into the African
interior, to put together a narrative which makes this work a
valuable collection of eighteenth-century accounts by European
explorers in Africa.
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