He was also chaplain to Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury; and died about the year 1628.

1. The first volume of his laborious compilation, was published in 1613, with the following title. "Purchas, his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World, and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered, from the Creation unto this present; in four parts. The first containeth a theological and geographical history of Asia, Africa, and America, with the islands adjacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the flood, the Heathenish, Jewish, and Saracenical, in all ages since, in those parts professed, with their several opinions, idols, oracles, temples, priests, fasts, feasts, sacrifices, and rites religious; their beginnings, proceedings, alterations, sects, orders, and successions. With brief descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoveries, private and public customs, and the most remarkable rarities of nature or human industry in the same."

The fourth edition, which is the best, much enlarged, was published in 1626, and addressed to archbishop Abbot. In his dedication, he observes: Great is this burthen of a two-fold world, and requires both an Atlas

and an Hercules too, to undergo it. The new ness also, makes it more difficult, being ar enterprize never yet (to my knowledge) by any, in any language, attempted; conjoin ing thus, antiquity and modern history, in the observations of all the rarities of the world, and especially of that soul of the world, religion. Yet have I adventured, and (I speak it not to boast, but to excuse myself, in so haughty designs) this my first voyage of discovery, besides mine own poor stock laid thereon, hath made me indebted to above twelve, hundred authors, of one or other kind, in I know not how many hundredths of their treatises, epistles, relations, and histories of divers subjects and languages, borrowed by myself; beside what (for want of the au thors themselves) I have taken upon trust. of other men's goods in their hands." This edi tion is moreover enlarged by an addition of the maps of Mercator and Hondius.

The whole of this great work is compres hended in five volumes, folio; of which the four last were published in 1625, under the following title: " Hakluytus Posthumus, or Pur- ' chas, his Pilgrims; containing a history of the world, in sea-voyages, and land travels,

by Englishmen and others. Wherein God's wonders in nature and providence, the acts, arts, varieties, and vanities of men, with a world of the world's rarities, are by a world of eye-witness-authors related to the world. Some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death, more since added, his also perused and perfected. All examined, abbreviated, illustrated with notes, enlarged with discourses, adorned with pictures, and expressed in maps. In four parts, each containing five books.

· Part 1, contains the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarchs, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the known world; enquiries also of languages, and religions, especially of the modern diversified professions of Christianity. A description of all the circum-navigations of the globe. Navi gations and voyages of Englishmen along the eoasts of Africa, to the Cape of Good Hope, and from thence to the Red Sea, &c. English voyages beyond the East Indies, to Japan, China, Cochin-China, the Philippine Islands, &c. The English affairs with the Great Samorine, (Mogul,) in the Persian and Arabian Gulphs, and in other places of the

continent, and islands of and beyond the Indies. The Portugal attempts, and Dutch disasters, &c.

Part 2. Navigations, voyages, and land discoveries, with other historical relations of Africa, and of the sea-coasts and inland regions of Ethiopia, by Englishmen and others. Peregrinations andtravels by land in Palestina, Natolia, Syria, Arabia, Persia, and other parts of Asia. Discoveries by land, of Assyria, Armenia, Persia, India, Arabia, and other inland countries of Asia, by Englishmen and others.

Part S. Peregrinations and discoveries in the remotest North and East parts of Asia; called Tartaria and China; and of Europe, as Russia, &c. by Englishmen and others. Voyages and discoveries in the north parts of the world, by land and sea, in Asia, Europe, the polar regions, and in the north west of America. Relations of Greenland, Groenland, the north-west passage, and other aretic regions, Voyages and travels to and in the New World, called America: relations of their Pagan fantiquities, and of the regions and plantations in the north and south parts thereof, and of the seas and islands adjacent,

[Near the end of this volume, is the book of the Indians, with Mexican hieroglyphics, or pictures cut in wood, which were pur chased by Hakluyt, when chaplain to the English ambassador in France, for twenty crowns.]

Part 4. Voyages to the East, West, and South Parts of America; many sea and land fights, invasions, and victories against the Spaniards, in those parts and the Spanish islands; plantations in Guiana, and adventures of Englishmen amongst the Americans. Voyages to and about the Southern America. Voyages to, and land travels in Florida, Virginia, and other parts of the Northern America. French plantings; Spanish supplantings; English Virginian voyages, and to the islands Azores. English plantations, discoveries, acts, and occurrents, in Virginia and Summer Islands, since the year 1606, till 1624. English discoveries and plantations in New England, and Newfoundland; with the patent and voyages to New Scotland. Relations also of the fleets set forth by Queen Elizabeth against the Spaniards."-This work has never been reprinted, from its magnitude and the consequent expence which would at