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«776. fent aofe of improved navio;ation, who have been inftrudled 



July. u 1 a 



<— V ' by their labours, and have followed them as our guides, 



have no fuch claim to fame. Some merit, however, being 

 ftill, in the public opinion, confidered as due to thofe who 

 fail to unexplored quarters of the globe, in conformity to 

 this favourable judgment, I prefixed to the account of my 

 laft voyage the names of the officers of both my fhips, and 

 a table of the number of their refpedlive crews. The like 

 information will be expe(5led from me at prefent. 



The Refolution was fitted out with the fame complement 

 of officers and men fhe had before ; and the I>ifcovery*& 

 eflablifhment, varied from that of the Adventure, in the 

 fingle inrtance of her having no marine officer on board. 

 This arrangement was to be finally completed at Plymouth; 

 Tutfdayg. and, on the gth, we received the party of marines allotted 

 for our voyage. Colonel Bell, who commanded the divifion 

 at this port, gave me fuch men for the detachment as 1 had 

 reafon to be fatisfied with. And the fupernumerary feamem 

 occafioned by this reinforcement, being turned over into 

 the Ocean man of war, our feveral complements remained 

 fixed, as reprefented in the following table i 



