DEDICATION. 



fraught with fubjecls, equal, if not fuperior, in courage, 

 fcience, and preparation, to any that ever before had 

 navigated the ocean. 



But they pollened other advantages, in which, 

 beyond all comparifon, they excelled former difcover- 

 ers. In place of hearts confirfed with fantallic no- 

 tions of honour and emulation, which conftantly led 

 to bloodfhed, theirs were filled with the moll bene- 

 ficent principles., with that noble perfuafion, the foun- 

 dation of all charity, not that all men are equal, but 

 that they are all brethren ; and that being fuperior 

 to the favage in every acquirement, it was for that 

 very reafon their duty to fet the example of mildnefs, 

 companion, and long-fuffering to a fellow -creature, 

 becaufe the weakeft, and, by no fault of his own, the 

 ieaft inftruded, and always perfectly in their power. 



Thus, without the ufual, and moft unwarrantable 

 exceftes, the overturning ancient, hereditary king- 

 doms, without bloodlhed, or trampling under foot 

 the laws of fociety and hofpitality, Your Majesty's 



fubjecls, 



