THE

IT AND ADVENTURES

O F

ROBINSON CRUSOE,

OF YORK, MARINER:

WHO LIVED EIGHT AND TWENTY YEARS ALONE IN AN UNINHABITED ISLAND, ON THE COAST OF AMERICA, NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE GREAT RIVER OROONOQUE.

KRAUS 24DEC'34

PREFACE.

HE Merit and Efteem in which this admired work of the truly celebrated Daniel de Foe has been held, will need no other encomium than the numerous editions through which it has paffed. At this period the work is read with avidity, defire and pleafure; the younger branches may be faid to read it from their cradle, and the more advanced can find amufement for their leisure hours in thefe events; the circumftances it contains engage the mind, and its principles of inftruction are founded on Virtue and Religion; yet they are conveyed in fuch a pleasing manner, that you are imperceptibly led through a wonderful history to a system of morality.

Among the many editions prefented the public, fome are of too extravagant a purchafe ;

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