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for a chart of the Gulf and River St. Lawrence, wliicL. plan at his 

 decease was dedicated to Sir Charles Saunders, with no other alter- 

 ations than what Mr. Cook and I made coming tip the river. 

 Another chart of the river, including Cbaleur and Caspe Bays, 

 mostly taken from plans in Admiral Dui-ell's possession, was com* 

 piled and drawn under your father's inspection, and sent by him for 

 immediate publication to Mr. Thomas Jeffereys, predecessor to Mr. 

 Faden. These charts were of much use, as some copies came out 

 prior to our sailing from Halifax for Qviebec in '59. By the drawing 

 of these plans under so able an instructor, Mr. Cook could not fail 

 bu.t improve, and thoroughly brought in his hand, as well in drawing 

 as protracting, &c. ; and by your father's finding the latitudes and 

 longitudes along the coast of America, principally Newfoundland and 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, so erroneously heretofore laid down, he was 

 convinced of the propriety of making accurate surveys of those parts. 

 Li consequ.ence, he told Captain Cook that as he had mentioned to 

 several of his friends in power the necessity of having surveys of 

 those parts, and astronomical observations made as soon as peace 

 was restored, he would recommend him to make himself competent 

 to the business by learning Spherical Trigonometry, with the practi- 

 cal part of Astronomy ; at the same time giving him Leadbetter's 

 Works, with which Mr. Cook, assisted by his explanations of 

 difficult passages, made infinite use, and fulfilled the expectations 

 entertained of him by your father, in his survey of Newfoundland. 

 Mr. Cook frequently expressed to me the obligations he was under 

 to Captain Simcoe ; and on my meeting him in London in the year 

 1776, after his several discoveries, he confessed most candidly that 

 the improvements and instructions he had received on board The 

 Pembroke had been the sole foundation of the services he had been 

 enabled to perform. I must now return to Louisbourg, where, being 

 General Wolfe's engineer during the attack of tha^t place, I was 

 present at a conversation on the subject of sailing for Quebec that 

 Fall : the General and Captain Simcoe gave it as their joint opinion 

 it might be reduced the same campaign. But this sage advice was 

 overruled by the contrary opinions of the admirals, who conceived 

 the season too far advanced, so tliat only a few ships went with 

 General Wolfe to Gasp^, &c., to make a diversion at the mouth of 

 the Biver St. Lawrence. Again : early in the spring following, had 

 Captain Simcoe's proposition to Admii'al Durell been put into execu- 



