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al/b communicated fome very authentic and fatisfaclory 

 manufcript accounts of the Ruffian difcoveries. 



The vocabularies of the Friendly and Sandwich Iflands, and 

 of the natives of Nootka, had been furniflied to Captain 

 Cook, by his mod ufeful afibciate in the voyage, Mr. An- 

 derlbn ; and a fourth, in which the language of the Efqui- 

 maux is compared with that of the Americans on the op- 

 pofite fide of the continent, had been prepared by the Cap- 

 tain himfelf. But the comparative Table of Numerals, which 

 is marked No. 2. in the Appendix, was very obligingly 

 drawn up, at the requeft of the Editor, by Mr. Bryant, who, 

 in his fludy, has followed Captain Cook, and, indeed, every 

 traveller and hillorian, of every age, into every part of the 

 globe. The Public will confider this Table as a very ftriking 

 illuftration of the Vvonderful migrations of a nation, about 

 whom fo much additional information has been gained by 

 our voyages, and be ready to acknowledge it as a very ufe- 

 ful communication. 



One more communication remains to be not only ac- 

 knowledged, but to be inferted at the clofe of this Intro- 

 duflion. The tejl'wiomes o^ learned contemporaries, in com- 

 mendation of a deceafed Author, are frequently difplayed 

 in the front of his book. It is with the great eft propriety, 

 therefore, that we prefix to this pofthumous work of Cap- 

 tain Cook the tejiimony of. one of his own profeffion, not 

 more diftinguiflied by the elevation of rank, than by the 

 dignity of private virtues. As' he wifhes to remain con- 

 cealed, perhaps this allufion, for which we intreat his in- 

 dulgence, may have given too exadl dire(5lion to the eyes of 

 the Public where to look for fuch a characfler. Let us, how- 

 ever, reft.fatisfied with the intrinlic merit of a compofition:, 



conveyed 



