Excerpt from The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal, Enlarged, Vol. 43: From January to April, Inclusive, 1804 The love of variety is to natural to man, unless his mind is debased by barbarous ignorance or lost in morbid apa thy, that few objects of contemplation and few subjects of discussion are agreeable to him for a long time without a change. In a taste for literature, this disposition as generally prevails as in other pursuits: but there are some departments bf science, and some branches of the bells: lettrrr, which te tain their powers of attraction more than Others; and among these we may certainly rank those books which describe voyages (it travels in distant or unknown regions. Often, therefore, as we have of late introduced such works to the notice of out readers, and they have for some time past been remarkably frequent, we shall not bevcry apprehensive of exhausting their patience or even of diminishing their appetite. The name of tofessor Pallas will be an additional security against any such effect in the present instance, with those who duly appreciate his laborious research, his profound knowlcge, and his accu rate observation, in the attractive paths of natural history. 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.