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doubt many a hope of future fame expired in that 

 man's breast as he sank into his last sleep in a 

 foreign clime, far from his home and friends and 

 relations, such as his order allowed him to possess. 

 The applause of the world, which doubtless he 

 fancied would have greeted his labours at the end 

 of his perilous journey, he was now robbed of ; and 

 he must have felt that few would ever recollect his 

 name, save the rare voyager who, like myself, 

 having encountered the same dangers that he had 

 braved, should chance to read his short history on 

 the narrow page of stone that rests above his grave. 



Another object of greater interest to the English- 

 man is observable on Cape Solander, the opposite 

 point of the bay. It is a plate set in the rock, record- 

 ing the first visit of the immortal Cook, to whose 

 enterprise the colonists are indebted for the land 

 that yields them their riches, and which must now 

 be invested in their eyes with all the sanctity of 

 home. Surely it would become them to evince a 

 more filial reverence for the man who must be re- 

 garded as in some respects the father of the colony. 

 Let us hope that they will one day raise a monu- 

 ment to his memory, which to be worthy of him 

 must be worthy of themselves. — something to point 

 out to future generations the spot at which the 

 first white man's foot touched the shore, and where 

 civilization was first brought in contact with the 

 new continent. 



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