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VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY- 



INTRODUCTION. * 



1 wo problems liave engaged, for some centuries, 

 the attention of the geographer, and still more of 

 the navigator j the discovery of a Southern Con- 

 tinent ; and that of a Northern Passage from the 

 Atlantic to the Southern Ocean, or, vice versa, 

 from the South Sea into the Atlantic. The first 

 problem was solved by the immortal Cook ; who, 

 in his second voyage, exploded the notion of a 

 Southern Continent, the existence of which was 

 thought to be necessary to preserve the balance 

 between the two hemispheres, and in which the 



* In compliance with the wish of the autlior, a pupil of wlioni 

 I am proud, I prefix some observations to his account of his 

 voya'^e. Tliis was also the wish of his unfortunate father, my 

 lamented friend, with whom I lived for thirty years together 

 in the most cordial intimacy ; whom I loved as my brother, 

 and whose death I shall never cease to deplore, in tonmion cer- 

 tainly with his numuroub friends and all impartial persons ti» 

 whom he was known. 



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