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tnent of enjoyment derived fipm commupion ^vltl' i.ature, an-^
consequently, also, to give impetus to its irseparable acconi*
paniment, the love ot" distant travels, we may mention i>*
France Jean Jacques E-ousseau, Buffon, and Bernardin de
St. Pierre, and, exceptionally to include a still living author-
I would name my old friend Auguste de Chateaubriand ;* m
Great Britain, the intellectual Play fair ; and in Germany.
Cook's companion on his second voyage of circumnavigation
the eloquent George Forster, who was endowed with so pe
culiarly happy a faculty of generalization in the study of natui'e
It would be foreign to the present work were I to under
take to inquire into the characteristics of these writers, aiidf.
investigate the causes which at one time lend a charm 0.^6
grace to the descriptions of natural scenery contained in th