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Bi aes Ws Fie aE. 
ing which Mr. Dalrymple derives from theerror I 
committed in eftimating the diftance to Cumber- 
land Houfe, any way affect the queftion under 
confideration ; becaufe that diftance being chiefly 
in longitude, I had no means of correcting it by 
an obfervation, which was not the cafe here. 
I do not by any means with to enter intoa dif- 
pute with, or incur the difpleafure of Mr. Dal- 
rymple; but thinking, as 1 do, that I have not 
been treated in fo liberal a manner as I ought to 
have been, he will excufe me for endeavouring 
.to convince the Public that his objections are in 
a great meafure without foundation. And hav- 
ing done fo, | fhall quit the difagreeable fubject 
with declaring, that if any part of the following 
fheets fhould afford amufement to Mr. Dalrym- 
ple, or any other of my readers, it will be the 
higheft gratification I can receive, and the only 
recompence I defire to obtain for the hardfhips 
and fatigue which I underwent in procuring the 
information contained in them. 
Being well aflured that feveral learned and cu- 
rious gentlemen are in pofleffion of manufcript 
copies of, or extracts from, my Journals, as well 
as copies of the Charts, I have been induced to 
make this. copy as correct as poflible, and to pub- 
lifh it; efpecially as I obferve that fcarcely any 
two of the publications that contain extracts from 
my Journals, agree in the dates when I arrived at, 
or departed trom, particular places. To rectify 
thofe difagreements I applied to the Governor and 
Committee 
