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had no conception. And if he has not been so fortunate as 

 Americus to give his name to a continent, his pretensions to 

 such a distinction remain unrivalled ; and he will be revered* 

 while there remains a page of his own modest account of his 

 voyages, and as long as mariners and geographers shall be 

 instructed, by his new map of the Southern hemisphere, to 

 trace the various courses and discoveries he has made. 



If public services merit public acknowledgments; if the 

 man who adorned and raised the fame of his country is de- 

 serving of honours, then Captain Cook deserves to have 

 a monument raised to his memory, by a generous and grateful 

 nation. 



Virtutis ubtrrimum alimentum est honos. 



Val. Maximus, lib. ii. cap. 6. 



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