

TO THE 



RIGHT HONOURABLE 



Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. K. B. 



Prefident of the Royal Society , 

 &c. &c, && 



SIR, 



W*HEN I gM&& the obliga- 

 tion which you have conferred on the Author 

 of the *' Account of the Voyage in fearch of 

 M La Peroufe," I cannot, as the Tranfiator 

 of his work, refill: the inclination I feel, to 

 pay you that tribute of applaufe to which 

 you have fo juft a claim. The Sciences, ta 

 the improvement of which you have not 

 only devoted your days, but, in the prime of 

 a 2, life, 



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