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fortunately for the world, loft his life at Owhyhee, one of the iflands 

 difcovered in this voyage, by the hands of the natives, with whom he 

 had previoufly been on the moft friendly terms. After his death 

 Captnin Gierke made a fccoud attempt to penetrate the Frozen ocean, 

 and met with a fecond repulfe from the ice ; which is a fufficient proof, 

 that, though there is no reafon to doubt that there is a fea unobftrucled 

 by land between the old and new continents, yet the prodigious mafles 

 of ice, which arc Icarcely ever thawed, oppofe an everlafting bar, as in- 

 fuperable as the moft folid mountains of rock, to the efforts of the 

 navigator. 



In ranging along the coaft of America Captain Cook difcovered 

 Nootka found, fince become famous from the difputes with Spain con- 

 cerning it, and as being the earlieft, and principal, feat of our fur trade 

 on that coaft, the flrft fruits of which were gathered in this voyage. 

 And during the courfe of the voyage plans for the moft advantageous 

 profecution of that lucrative trade were projeded bv Captain Cook, and,, 

 after his death digefted and matured by Captain King *. 



At the Rullian harbour of S'. Peter and S'. Paul on the eaft coaft of 

 Kamtfchatka, where the navigators were treated with the moft generous 

 hofpitality by Colonel Behm the governor, the officers, and inhabitants, 

 they obfervcd, that, even in that remoteft corner of the habitable earth, 

 the manufadurcs of this country made a principal part of their im- 

 ported conveniencies f . 



The two Hiips having loft both their captains, arrived in Britain 

 under the command of Meflieurs Gore and King, who had embarked 

 as tirft and fecond lieutenants of the Refolution, in the month of 

 Odober 1780. 



This brief account of Captain Cook's laft expedition ought not to be 

 clofed without making honourable mention of the liberality and gener- 

 ofity of the Frtnch government, and, in imitation of them, of the 

 Spaniards and Amcricuns, who gave orders to all their ftiips of war and 

 privateers, in cafe of meeting v/ith the two weather-beaten ihips which 

 had tor fo many years encountered the hardOiips of every climate, by 

 00 means to offer to moleft them, but rather to give them every 

 friendly afliftancc in their power. Such condud is a itriking mark of 

 the diftindion between the humanized warfare of modern enlightened 

 nations, and the indifcriminate maifacrea of the barbarians of former .- 



• See Cock't Third voya^t, F. ii, />. 401;^ iii, P'h'ihfnfhinil ir.mfa^lci.! ) we learn, tli.U Mr. Boglv, 



/■• -i.}*^' ^ yvliCJi ?.t the court of tlie Lama of Thibet, in the 



■\ Captain King <]weJb witli grc« fatisfa£lion interior part of Afia, f;uv there many European 



on the plcafing ide.is of home excited in him by pifturis, luoking-glolfcs, and trinkets of gold, 



the light uf au ohl pe«Hr fpoon with the word lilvtr, aiij (Ucl, chiefly Englllh, whicli he liad re- 



Landon (lamped 011 the back of it. Int'etd thrtc ccived hv irean» of the 'I'aitar fiibjcitln of Ruflia, 



is fcartcly any p.\rt ci the woild, to which Biililh and pariicularly a (Jrahani's ripcatin-r watch, 



pianiifacliircg have not found tluir way. Fiom which had been litad, rs they faid, for fon;: 



Mr. Su-waii'j IcltT fo Sir John Pringic (in llic lime. 



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