ADVERTISEMENt. xlvU 



" our zealous advocate for the difcovery, with new 

 ** arguments for attempting it once more ; and he 

 " had the good fortune, after getting the reward 

 ** of twenty thoufand pounds eftablilhed by adt of 

 *' parhament, to prevail upon a fociety of Gentle- 

 *' men and Merchants to fit out the Dobbs and 

 ** Cahfornia ; which fliips, it was hoped, would be 

 *' able to find their way into the Pacific Ocean, by 

 " the very opening which Middleton's voyage had 

 *' pointed out, and which he was believed to have 

 *' mifreprefented. 



*' This renovation of hope only produced frefli 

 ** difappointment. For it is well known, that the 

 ** Voyage of the Dobbs and California *, inflead of 

 ** confuting, ftrongly confirmed all that Middleton 

 *' had afferted. The fuppofed ftrait was found to 

 ** be nothing more than a frefh water river, and 

 ** it's utmoft Weftern navigable boundaries were 

 " now afcertained, by accurate examination.'* 



Wager s river, accordingly, produces a real tide 

 from the Weft, becaufe it is one of the flu ices 

 which open from the North into the Atlantic 

 Ocean : it is evident, therefore, that Cook's great 

 River produces, on it's fide, a real tide from the 



* Mr. Ellis embarked in the Vo);age, and he it is who wrote 

 the relation of it, which I have repeatedly quoted. 



Eaft, 



