looking like Norway, and feemingly extending from E. to W.

The facts and the obfervations made by Captain Cook, corroborates each other; and though they do not reduce the question to an abfolute certainty, yet the probability is greatly in favour of the fuppofed discovery. To conclude thefe reflections, and to place the character of our judicious navigator in the moft ftriking point of view, he performed a voyage of three years and eighteen days, with 118 men, throughout all the climates, from 52 deg. N. to 7 deg. S. with the lofs only of one man by sickness ; and even this one began fo early to complain of a cough, and other confumptive symptoms, which had never left him, that his lungs must have been affected before he came on board to go the voyage.

Did any, moft converfant in the bills of mortality, whether, in the most healthful climate, and in the belt condition of life, ever find fo fmall a lift of deaths, among fuch a number of men within that space; How agreeable then muft our furprife be, to find, by the affiduity and unremitted exertions of a fingle skilful navigator, the air of the sea acquitted of all malignity, and that a voyage round the world has been undertaken with lefs danger perhaps to health, than a common tour in Europe. Surely, distinguished merit is here confpicuous, though praife and adoration belongs to the Supreme Being only.

May future navigators fpring out of this bright example, not only to perpetuate his juftly acquired fame, but to imitate his labours for the advancement of natural knowledge, the good of fociety, and the Arue glory of Great Britain.

End of the Second VOYAGE.

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CAPTAIN COOK's

THIRD and Laft VOYAGE,

TO THE

PACIFIC OCEAN and NOR THERN HEMISPHERE.

Which was performed under the Direction of Captains COOK, CLERKE, and GORE, in his Majefty's Ships the Refolution and Discovery, in the Years1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.

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CAPTAIN COOK's

THIRD and laft VOYAGE,

TO THE

PACIFIC OCEAN and NOR

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CHAP. I.

Captain Cook's departure from England.

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-Junction with the Difcovery at the Cape of Good Hope- -Paffage to Prince Edward's ifland -Arrival at Van Diemen's Land Interview with the natives Arrival at Queen Charlotte's Sound- -Particulars of the horrid maffacre of the Adventure's boat's crew- Departure from Queen Charlotte's Sound.

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APTAIN James Cook failed from Plymouth Sound, on the 19 of July, 1776, in the Refolution floop of war: He was accompanied by Omai, whose behaviour, on his departure, was a mixture of regret and fatisfaction. When the converfation turned on those who had honoured him with their protection and friendship, during his stay in England, he could hardly refrain from tears.

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But the inftant his own islands were mentioned, his eyes fparkled with joy. He was deeply fenfible of the good treatment he had meet with here, and had the highest ideas of the country and people. But the pleafing profpet he now had of returning home, loaded with what, he well knew, would be efteemed invaluable treasures there, and the flattering hope which the poffeflion of thefe gave him, of attaining to a diftinguished fuperiority among his countrymen, were confiderations, which operated, by degrees, to fupprefs every uneafy fenfation. On the 10th of October, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. Here he was joined, on the 10th of November, by Capt. Clerk, in the Discovery, who had not been permitted to fail after him till the aft of Auguft. In his paffage to the Cape, Captain Cook took care to guard against the ill confequences arifing from the rains, and the clofe fultry weather accompanying them, by frequently purifying the air between decks by fire and fmoke, and obliging the people to dry their clothes at every opportunity. By constantly continuing to observe these precautions, there were fewer fick on board the Refolution and Discovery, than in either of his former voyages.

On the 1st of December both fhips left the Cape. On the 12th, they palled through two islands, the largest about 15 leagues in circuit, in the lat. of 46 deg. 53 min. S. and in the long. of 37 deg. 45 min. E. The longitude is reckoned from the meridian of Greenwich, and after paffing to the Eaft, in the South Atlantic, is carried on cafterly beyond the 18oth degree, to the utmost extent of the voyage, and back to the fame meridian. These two iflands, as well as four others, which lie from 9 to 12 degrees of longitude more to the E. and nearly in the fame latitude, were difcovered in 1772, by Captains Marion

and

and Grozet, two French navigators, To the two firft Capt. Cook gave the name of Prince Edward's Iflands, and the latter he called Marion and Crozet's islands. On the 24th he came in fight of fome high Islands, which had been difcovered in 1773, by Kerguelen, a French Captain, who named them all. The northernmost of these, called Bligh's Cap, is in lat. 48 deg. 29 min. S. and long. 68 deg. 40 min. E. They next approached a defolate coaft called Kerguelen's Land, which that navigator thought to be a continent, but which Capt. Cook found to be an ifland. On the 25th, he entered a fafe harbour, which he called Chriftmas harbour. Here they found plenty of water, but not a bit of wood. The fhore was covered with penguins and other birds, and feals. The latter were not numerous, but fo infenfible to fear, that they killed as many of them as they pleased, for the fake of their fat or blubber, to make oil for their lamps and other uses. On the 29th, they left this harbour, and ranging along the coaft, to afcertain its pofition and extent, they difcovered feveral promontories and bays with a peninfula, and a new harbour, to all which Capt. Cook gave names.

On the gift, Capt. Cook left this coaft, fteering E by N. and on the 24th of January 1777, faw Van Diemen's Land, which is the fouthern point of New Holland. On the 26th they anchored in Adventure Bay, where they were employed in procuring wood and water. On the 28th, they were agreeably furprised with a visit from fome of the natives, eight men and a boy. They approached from the woods with the greatest confidence imaginable. One of them had a flick in his hand about two feet long, pointed at one end. They were quite naked, and wore no ornaments, unless we confider as fuch, fome large punctures or ridges on different parts of their

bodies,