conveyed under the injunction o f fecrecy; and conclude
our long preliminary diilertation with exprefling a wiih, or
rather a well-grounded hope, that this volume may not be
the only place where pofterity can meet with a monumental
infcription, commemorative of a man, in recounting and
applauding whofe fervices, the whole o f enlightened Europe
will equally concur with Great Britain.
T O
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C a p t a i n J A M E S C O O K ,
T h e ableil and moil renowned Navigator this
or any country hath produced»
ffE ra fe d h im fe lf fildy by his merit, from a very ob/cure birth t*
'* unfortunately
Med by the Savages of the i f and Owhyhee, on the j j th “r Z fL
1779 ■> which i f and he bad, not long before, difcovered, when trfelting
hts third voyage round the globe.
hH[Pf f d' i m Cmment dlthe lualifcations require for
his profefion and great undertakings-, together with the amiable and
■worthy qualities of the bef men, amiable and
Cool and deliberate in judging : fallacious in • ■
wtremitting ggjj „,««W f r / g .J ' ’f f g
a r ' l i f f i S l
Mild, ju f, but exalt in difcipline: he was n f
i t ' e n t ™ maCbed ^ g g a n / o b lJ j r Z :
Z rZ fo „d, anSer°US naviSati^ became eafy, and almof fo u n d e r l i
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