rolling like the bay of Bifcay. Dallie now prefTed the Captain 

 to proceed ; but he anfwered that he had already gone too far 

 by having neglected his ftation, for which he mould be blamed 

 in Holland, on which account alfo he would fufFer no journal to 

 be made, but returned as fpeedily as he could to Spitzbergen. . 



There are undoubtedly two objections which may be made to 

 this account of Dr. Dallie's, which are, that it depends not only 

 upon his own memory, but that of Dr. Campbell, as- no journal 

 can be produced, for the reafon which I have before ftated. 



The converfation, however, between Dr. Campbell and Dallie 

 arofe from the accidental mention of Roggewein's voyage to the 

 Southward ;, and can it be fuppofed that Dallie invented this 

 circumftantial narrative on the fpot, without having a£tually 

 been in a high Northern latitude ? 



If this be admitted to have been improbable,, was he not likely 

 to have remembered with accuracy what he was fo much inte- 

 rested about, as to have preffed the Dutch Captain to have pro- 

 ceeded to the Pole ? 



But it may be faid alfo, that we have not this account from 

 Dallie himfelf, but at fecond-hand from Dr. Campbell, at the 

 diftance of thirty years from the converfation. 



To this it may be anfwered, that Dr. Campbell's memory was 

 moft remarkably tenacious, as is well, known to all thofe who 

 had the pleafure of his acquaintance ; and, as he hath written 

 fo ably for the promotion of geographical difcoveries in all parts 

 of the globe, fuch an account could not but make a ftrong im- 

 preffion upon him, efpecially as. he received it juft after the firft- 

 edition of his compilation of voyages. 



No one. eafily forgets what is highly interefting to him ; and,, 

 though I do not pretend to have fo good a memory as Dr. 

 Campbell, I have fcarcely a doubt, but that if I mould live 

 4 thirty 



