. ADVENTURES 2 of Ce ROBINSON CRUSOE ((being D The Second and Last Part of his LI IFE. And of the Strange Surprizing Account of his TRAVELS Round three parts of the Globe. THE PREFACE. THE fuccefs the former part of this WORK has met with in the world, has yet been no other than is acknowledged to be due to the surprising variety of the subject,, and to the agreeable manner of the performance. All the endeavours of envious people to reproach it with being a romance, to fearch it for errors in geography, inconsistency in the relation, and contradictions in the fact, have proved abortive, and as impotent as mali cious. The juft application of every incident, the religious and ufeful inferences drawn from every part, are so many teftimonies to the good defign of making it public, and muft legitimate all the part that may be called invention or parable in the story. VOL. II. A The The Second Part, if the Editor's opinion may pass, is (contrary to the ufage of Second Parts) every way as entertaining as the Firft; contains as ftrange and furprising incidents, and as great a variety of them; nor is the application less serious or fuitable; and doubtlefs will, to the fober, as well as the ingenious READER, be every way as profitable and diverting; and this makes the abridging this WORK as fcandalous, as it is knavish and ridiculous. Seeing, to fhorten the Book, that they may seem to reduce the value, they strip it of all those reflections, as well religious as moral, which are not only the greateft beauties of the WORK, but are calculated for the infinite advantage of the READER. By this, they leave the WORK naked of its brightest ornaments; and yet they would (at the same time they pretend that the Author has fupplied his ftory out of his invention) take from it the improvement, which alone recommends that invention to wife and good men. The injury these men do to the PROPRIETORS of WORKS, is a practice all honeft |