Excerpt from The Library Companion, Vol. 2: Or, the Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a Library Having g1ven a pretty full account of collections of voyages, and of circumnavigations of the Globe, I proceed to lay before my readers, both young and old, a sketch of a few of the more important Voyages and travels which relate to the most ancient, and, With the exception of America, the largest quar ter of the World to those regions, once the scene of an earthly paradise. About the Publisher 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.