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We have now in Germany ffot the first 

 lome of a new edition of liis works, 

 with many additions. From Ediuburg 

 I should be glad to know how (foes Mr. 

 Hume, Robertson, Huttou, Black, Ha- 

 milton, Young, and Ramsay. Pray, 

 Sir, give them all iny best compli- 

 ments. The reverend Burnet you must 

 not forget, I wish him well. Sometime 

 when you are going on Arthur's seat re- 

 niember your old fellow traveller. To 

 remember you will be the most sensible 

 pleasure for your most humble friend 

 and servant. 



Original Letters, with Autographs. 



(May I, 



Siockhofi 



LKTTEHS from Dr. solander and 

 Dr. BURNEY relative to cook's 

 Second Foyage. 



My dear Doctor, — As I am sure 

 you cannot but be very anxious about 

 knowing what has been done during 

 C'apt. Fourueaux's circumnavigation of 

 tlie globe. You will remember that in 

 July 1774, the Resolution, Capt. Cook, 

 and the Adventure, Capt. Fourneaux, 

 left'England. Both ships kept company 

 to the Caj)e of Good Hope, which 

 place they left the end of Novem- 

 ber, and steered almost due South in 

 search of Cape Circumcision, which 

 they did not find ; notwithstanding 

 that they tried several longitudes: 

 they then resolved to steer eastward, 

 and appointed Charlotte Sound on New- 

 Zealand, a place of rendesvouz in case 

 they should separate, and always pro- 

 posing to proceed in as high southerly 

 latitudes as possible. They, therefore, 

 sailed south till they in lat. 67" 10' met 

 with so much ice that they could not 

 go farther, and were obliged to make 

 noitherly, as the ice grew very trouble- 

 some. A little afterwards the ships 

 parted by accident in a foggy night ; 

 Capt. Cook all along sailing in lat. s.fiO" 

 till he at last bore up for New Zealand, 

 and found a very good harbour ou the 

 southernmost part of Tavai pttenamo, 

 in the bay which we called Dusky Bay, 

 where he staid six or seven weeks, and 

 surveyed that southern part of New 

 Zealand, which we saw but indif- 

 ferently. He found a passage within a 

 large island, from Dusky Bay to 

 DoubtJ'iit Marl)oiir. Capt. FoiirneauN. 



after the separation, steered a more 

 northerly course,iu about lat. 55", and at 

 last making P'an Dieman''s Land., upon 

 New Holland, he anchored in Frederic 

 Henry Bay, where he saw deserted 

 huts, but no people. He staid there 

 but a short time, desirous of seeing 

 that part of New Holland which lays 

 between Van Dieman's Land where 

 Tasman left it, and Point Theibs, 

 where we fell in with it ; he sailed 

 close to the coast, and now and then 

 saw a few inhabitants just such as we 

 saw, but had no intercourse with them. 

 A strong S^y. gale made it necessary 

 for him to leave the coast, when he wa« 

 within fifteen or twenty miles of Point 

 Sheebs ; but from sniobs, high uionii- 

 taius, &c. he is sure that it is one laud ; 

 Opt. Fourneaux arrived into Charlotte 

 Sound, six weeks befoi'e Capt. Cook 

 came from his southern svirveys. Dur- 

 ing all this time and after Capt. Cook's 

 arrival, the inhabitants behaved re- 

 markably. Mr. Bayley, the astrono- 

 mer, lived on shore nine weeks in a 

 tent, with six men, and was never mo- 

 lested. The two ships afterwards set 

 out for Otaheilc ; they made their sail- 

 ing in variable winds, very generally 

 in lat. s. 45", till they came in the 

 longitude of Otaheite, then steered N. 

 for it ; they staid at Otaheite nine days, 

 w here there again iiad been a most cruel 

 war, in which the King of Little Ota- 

 heite had been successful against the 

 King of Great Otaheite. Many of our 

 friends had been killed in the two 

 battles which were fought about nine 

 months before their arrival. Tutaha 

 (the Regent) was killed, and Oborhea 

 reduced to such poverty (hat she would 

 not come down to the ships; sheep 

 were very scarce. Huaheine was the 

 next island they visited, there they 

 found plenty, and friendly assistance, 

 which the Adventure's people wanted 

 much, as most of them were aftiicted 

 with the scurvy. During their five 

 day's stay in this island, a native of 

 Ulaietea embarked on board the Ad- 

 venture, he is now here with us; and 

 a native of Bola Bola embarked on 

 board the Resolution. From Huaheine 

 they went to Ulaietea, wliere they staid 

 but 5 days, got more hogs, &c. than 

 they wanted. Thus refreslied they re- 

 solved to go to the southward, and in 

 their way called at Middleburg and 

 Amsterdam, at the former thg^ an- 

 chored, but for one day, and at the 

 latter they staid five days. These two 

 islands aie remarkably fine, abounding 



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