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A VOYAGE TO 



»779- of the prefent voyage has fuggefted, are mentioned in their 



February. r 



\ — v — i proper places. 



With refpecl: to his profeffional abilities, I fhall leave them 

 to the judgment of thofe who are beft acquainted with the 

 nature of the fervices in which he was engaged. They 

 will readily acknowledge, that to have conducted three ex- 

 peditions of fo much danger and difficulty, of fo unufual 

 a length, and in fuch a variety of fituation, with uniform 

 and invariable fuccefs, muft have required not only a 

 thorough and accurate knowledge of his bufinefs, but a 

 powerful and comprehenfive genius, fruitful in refources, 

 and equally ready in the application of whatever the higher 

 and inferior calls of the fervice required. 



Having given the mod faithful account I have been able 

 to collect, both from my own obfervation, and the relations 

 of others, of the death of my ever honoured friend, and 

 alfo of his character and fervices ; I fhall now leave his me- 

 mory to the gratitude and admiration of pofterityj accept- 

 ing,, with a melancholy fatisfaction, the honour, which the 

 lofs of him hath procured me, of feeing my name joined 

 with his ; and of teltifying that aifection and refpect for 

 his memory, which, whilrt. he lived, it was no lefs my in- 

 clination, than my conflant fludy, to fhew him. 



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