MEMORY OF CAPTAIN COOK. Ixxxix 



of this globe ^ and^ at the fame time, the arrogance of mortals, in pre- 

 fuming to account, by their fpeculations, for the laws by which he was 

 pleafed to create it. It is noiv df covered, beyond all doid^t, that the 

 fame Great Being who created the imiverfe by his fiat, by the fame 

 ordained our earth to keep ajttf poife, without a correfponding Southern 

 continent — and it docs fo ! " He f retches out the North over the empty 

 •' place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.'''' Job, xxvi. 7. 



If the arduous but exaSl refearches of this extraordinary man have 

 not difcovered a nevo world, they have d'f covered feas unnavigated and 

 unknown before. They have made us acquainted with 'i/lands, people and 

 produElions, of which we had no conception- And if he has not beenfo 

 fortunate as Americus to give his name to a continent, his pretenfions to 

 fuch a d'i/lln£lion remain unrivalled ; and he will be revered, while there 

 remains a page of his own modef account of his voyages, and as long 

 as mariners and geographers fall le 'tnfruBed, by his new map of th^ 

 Southern hemifphere, to trace the various courfes and d'fcoveries he has 

 made. 



If public fervices merit public acknowledg7nents ; if the man who 

 adorned and raifed the fame of his country is dcferving of honours, then 

 Captain Cook deferves to have a monu7nent raifed to his memory, by a 

 generous and grateful nation. 



Viitiuis ubemmum alimentum eft honos. 



Val, Maximus, Lib. 2. Cap. 6. 



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