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To the Librarian Royal Mr. GjoRWELp,
O f Iceland in general.
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Utrecht, Jan* 22, 1773«
YOU are, no doubt, informed of
the voyage Mr. Banks and Dr*
Solander undertook lail fummerto Iceland,
as vv»ell as of my having accom-
pariied thefe gentlemen on that expedition*
1 need not tell you what rea-
fons determined me to become one o f
their company. You can eafily conceive
how many different circumflances
might have perfuaded a curious Swede
to viiit a country remarkable in fo
many refpeils : I am perfeilly fatisfied
with ray voyage, and can eafily convince
you of it, by communicating to
you fome little account of what principally
attradled our attention during
its Gourfe*
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We fet fail from London oil the
i2th of July lail in a fliip, for which
one hundred pounds flerlihg were paid
every month. Befides Mr. Banks, Dr.
Solander, and myfelf, we had on board
an ailronomer *, a lieutenant o f the
navy (a very worthy man, his name is
Gore, and deferves to be mentioned, as
he is, as faj as we know, the firil who
has failed three times round the world f )
together with a lieutenant, three
draughtfmen, and two writers, who,
with the feaiiien and fervants, made
about forty people.
We firil landed on the Ifle o f Wio-ht,
which is a little paradife, where we
fpent two days. Nature feems to have
fpared none o f her favours to em-
bellifii it ; and I know not any place
in it that does not prefent a pleaiing
* Dr. James Lind of Edinburgh, who is well known
by many memoirs .inferted in the Philofophical Tranf-
adions, and other ingenious publications.
t Captain Dampier did it a long time before Mr.
Gore, viZi Cowley and Dampier, 1683, 1684; Damper
and Funnel, 1689, 1691 ; Woodes, Rogers, and
ampler, 1708, 1 7 1 1 . I f lieutenant Gore and captain
Charles Clerk return fafe home from the voyage
they are now engaged in, they both will have failed
tour times round the world.
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