lxxxii i n t r o d u c t i o n ;
to be exerted in finiffiing many o£ them, rendered this *
tedious operation; paper fit for printing them upon was to
be procured from abroad ; and after all thefe various and
unavoidable difficulties were furmounted, much time was
neceffarily required for executing a numerous impreffion o f
the long lift of plates, with fo much care as might do juffice
both to Mr. Webber, and to his feveral engravers* When
all thefe circumftanees are taken into confideration, we truft
that we ihall hear no more of the delay ; and only be gratethe
Ganges, and Barampooter or Sanpoo Rivers, are inferted from the w ork o f the
ingenious Author o f the map o f Hindooftan, publiihed in 1782.
The China fea is laid down from the chart pub'liOied by Mr. Dalrymple ; but the
longitudes of- Pula Sapata, Pulo Condole, Pulo Timoan, Straits of Banca and
Sunda, and the parts we faw are as, fettled by us, together with the Eaft coaft of
. Niphon, the principal of the Japenefe Iflands.
The Jefo and Kurile ¡Hands, the Eaft coaft of Alia, and Kamtfchatka,, as well as
the fea of Okotik, and the ¡Hands lying between Kamtfchatka and America that were
not feen in the voyage, are taken from a Ruffian MS.. chart, got by us at the Ifland
of Oonalalhka*
T h e Northern countries from Cape Kanin, near the White Sea, as far Eaft as
the-River Lena, I have given from the Great Ruffian Map, publiihed at Peteriburg
in 1776 including the Euxine, Cafpian, and Aral Seas, as alfo the principal lakes
to the Eaftward ; the intent of which is to {hew the fource of the large rivers that
empty themfelves into the different oceans and feas.. -
Every other part of the chart not mentioned in this account, is as originally placed
by Captjin Cook. ' ' " ,
The whole has been correfted from the lateft aftronomical obfervations, felefled
■ from the Tables compiled by Mr. William Wales, F. R. S. and mathematical mailer
o f Chrift’s Hofpital, for the Nautical Almanacs Fromthofe in the Mariners Guide
by the Rev. Dr. Mafkelyne, F. R. S. and Aftronomer Royal, publiihed in 1763 ;
From-the Connoiffance des Temps for 1780 and 1781; From Profeffor Mayer’s
Geographical Table; From the Voyages of Meffrs. d’Eveux de Fleurieu, Verdun,
de Borda, and’Chabet, &c . ; From the Table lately publiihed by Mr. Dalrymple
• for the ufe of the Eaft In8ia {hips ; From the Philofophical Tranfaiftions of the Royal
{Society; 'and from the Obfervations of our late Navigators.
H E N » . R O B E R T S .
S h o r e h a m , S u s s e x , May 18, 1784.
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ful to that munificent Patron o f Science, who not only directed
the hiftory of the voyage to be publiihed ; but to be
publiihed with fucli a fplendid train of ornaments, at the
public expence, as will ftill add to the merit of having ordered
the voyage itfelf to be undertaken.
And here- it feems to be incumbent upon us to add, as
another inftance of munificent attention, that care has been
taken to mark, in the moft fignificant manner, the juft fenfe
entertained of the humane and liberal relief afforded to our
Clips in Kamtfchatka. Colonel Behm, the commandant of
that province, has not been rewarded merely by the pleafure
which a benevolent mind feels in reflecfting upon the bleff-
ings it confers ; but has been thanked in a manner equally
confident with the dignity o f his own fovereign and o f ours,
to whofe fubjefts he extended protection. A magnificent
piece of plate was prefented to him, with an infcription
worthy of a place in the fame book where the hiftory of his’
humanity to our countrymen is recorded, and which, while
it does honour to our national gratitude, deferves alfo to be
preferred as a monument o f our national tafte for elegant
compofition. It is as follows:
V i r o e g r e g i o m a g n o d e B e h m ,• qui, Imperatricis AuguJltJJltn«
Catherine anfpidis,fummdque animi benignitate, feva, quibuspreerat,
Kamtfchatke littora, navibus nautifque Britannicis, hofpita prebuit
eofque, in terminis,fi qui ejfent Imperio Ruffico, fruftrd explorandts,
mala multaperpejjos, iteratd vice excepit, refecit, recreavit, et commeatd
omni cumulate audios dimifif, R e i n a v a l i s B r i t a n n i c a e S e p -
t b m v j r i m ahquam benevolent™ tam inftgnis memoriam, amicijfimo,
gratijfimoque animo, JUo, patrieque nomine, D. D. D.
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