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To ROD. VALLTRAVERS, Efq; &c. 

 S I R, 



PROFESSOR Allamand, being very defirous that the in- 

 clofed might be fent to you as foon as poffible, has 

 obliged me to draw up with hafte the above account of the 

 informations I received at Amfterdam. In reading it over, and 

 comparing it with my notes, I find no fault as to the facts 

 related, whatever there may be in the manner in which it is 

 drawn up ; in cafe the whole or any part of it mould be thought 

 worth publishing, I hope you will -be fo good as to have it 

 corrected g . 



I could have made it more circumftantial, as my notes are 

 very full, in particular with regard to the reafons our Com- 

 manders gave for not making the trial to the Weft of Spits- 

 bergen, &c. 



I am informed that Mr. De Bougainville intends to go by the 

 way of Nova Zembla h . 



I am, with profound refpect, 



S I R, 



Your moil obedient humble fervant, 



Leyden, 



April nth, i 775 . WILLIAM MAY. 



s This hath been done in fome trifling particulars, relative merely 

 to the ftile, as Captain May is not a native of England. 

 h This voyage of difcovery, however, did not take place. 



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THUS 



