90 NORTHMOST AUSTRALIA 



whom I cannot identify with confidence, and his admiration for 

 an ideal discoverer. 



NOT TO HIM WHO 

 DISCOVERED SCARCELY ANYTHING 



BUT 



PATAGONIANS 



NOR TO HIM WHO 



FROM 20 SOUTH LATITUDE, 



THINKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO GO 



ON DISCOVERY 



INTO 30 SOUTH, 



DETERMINED TO COME HOME ROUND THE WORLD 



INTO 50 NORTH 

 NOR TO HIM WHO, 



INFATUATED WITH FEMALE BLANDISHMENTS, 

 FORGOT FOR WHAT HE WENT ABROAD 



AND 

 HASTENED BACK TO AMUSE 



THE EUROPEAN WORLD 

 WITH STORIES OF ENCHANTMENTS 



IN THE 

 NEW CYTHEREA ; 



BUT 



TO THE MAN WHO, 



EMULOUS OF MAGELAHANES 



AND 



THE HEROES OF FORMER TIMES, 

 UNDETERR'D BY DIFFICULTIES 



AND 



UNSEDUC'D BY PLEASURE, 

 SHALL PERSIST THROUGH EVERY OBSTACLE, 



AND 

 NOT BY CHANCE 



BUT 



BY VIRTUE AND GOOD CONDUCT, 

 SUCCEED IN ESTABLISHING AN INTERCOURSE WITH 



A 



SOUTHERN CONTINENT, 



THIS HISTORICAL COLLECTION 



OF FORMER DISCOVERIES 



IN 



THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN 

 IS PRESENTED 



BY 

 ALEXANDER DALRYMPLE. 



JAN. I, 1770. 



