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remarks that this monument will last as long as the rock on which 

 Cook stood when first wounded, as every one who visits the place 

 breaks fragments from the latter. 



CAPTAIN COOK S MONUMENT. 



The following is the inscription on it 



t 



NEAR THIS SPOT 

 FELL 



CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R. N., 



THE 



RENOWNED CIRCUMNAVIGATOR, 



WHO 



DISCOVERED THESE ISLANDS, 



A. D. 1778. 



HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP 



IMOGENE, 



OCTOBER 17th, 1837. 



THIS SHEET OF COPPER AND CAP PUT ON BY SPARROWHAWK, 



SEPTEMBER 13tH, 1839, 



IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THIS MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF COOK. 



I could have wished that the first inscription, relating solely to Cook, 

 was the only one ; the other, it seems to me, was not worthy of being 

 associated with any thing connected with so great a name ; and good 

 taste and proper feeling I think would have shrunk from inscribing it 

 as well as the following on another part, " Give this a coat of tar." 



The inhabitants of this district are nine thousand. The marriages 

 are about one hundred yearly. The population is thought to be de- 

 creasing, but this is assuming as correct the former census, which I 



