VOYAGE 



TO THE 



North Weft Coaft of America. 



CHAP. I. 



Account of the different P'erfons who jirjl carried on the 

 Fur 'Trade. — The King George s Sound Company ejla- 

 hliped. — Two Veffels purchafed. — The Complements of 

 their Crews ^ and Names of the Officers. — Paffage from 

 Gravefe?id to Portfmouth. — Employments there. — De- 

 parture from Portfmouth. — In Daitger near the Cajkets, 

 — Arrival at Guernfey, 



THOUGH that illuftrious navigator, Captain Cook, chap. 

 did not, with all his fkill and all his perfeverance, 

 obtain the great objed: of his voyage to the vveftern coaft 

 of America, the dil'covery of a pradlicable paffage from 

 the North Pacific to the North Atlantic Ocean, he fur- 

 niihcd philofophy with many additional fadls, and he 

 opened to commerce feveral extenlive profpedls. The 



B voyages 



