:
_an_ for _on_; page 17, line 6: _Grandfathers_ for _Grandfather's_;
page 19, the catch-word, _the_ for _this_; page 20, line 5: _run_ for
_ran_; page 22, line 22: _of_ for _off_; page 28, the catch-word,
_they_ for _the_; page 36, the catch-word, _Cha-_ for _Courage_; page
37, the catch-word, _Lansd_ for _Lands_. In addition, there are several
places where the printer uses eighteenth-century variant spellings such
as _ballances_ (pp. 5, 8), _mannaged_ (p. 2), _quallifie_ (p. 8),
_Soveraign_ (p. 41) and _steddy_ (p. 15). Eighteenth-century
orthographic practice would have permitted such spellings. The word
_entitled_, however, appears on page five as both _entituled_ and
_intituled_.

12. None of the various copies I have examined contains typographical
differences--even in the case of the typographical errors.

13. On page 38, line 25, the word _Big_ is used where _Large_ would
have been the English usage; on page 42, line 3, the word _Bann'd_ is
used for _Swore_ and defined in the text as an "Atalantic word"; on
page 43, line 4, the word _evite_ is used instead of _avoid_.

14. William Lee, _Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered
Writings_ (London: Hotten, 1869), I, 177; Paul Dottin, _Daniel Defoe_,
trans. Louise Ragan (New York, Macaulay, 1929), p. 155; John Robert
Moore, _Daniel Defoe, Citizen of the Modern World_ (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1958), p. 191; and Moore, _A Checklist of the
Writings of Daniel Defoe_(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962),
p. 82.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

_Atalantis Major_ is reproduced from a copy of the first edition
(1711) in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Shelf Mark:
*PR/3404/A851). A typical type-page (p. 4) measures 158 x 82 mm.

Atalantis Major.

Printed in _Olreeky_, the Chief City of the North Part of _Atalantis
Major_.

_Anno Mundi_ 1711.

Atalantis Major.

There having been a large Account given to the World of several
remarkable Adventures which happened lately in the famous _Atalantis_,
an Island, which the ingenious Authors found placed in the
_Mediterranean_ Sea; the Success of which Accounts, but especially the
Usefulness of the Relation, to the Ends for which they were designed,
having been very remarkable, I thought it could not be unacceptable to
the World, (especially to those who _have been Already so delighted_
with News from that Island) to give a particular Historical Narration
of some remarkable