LIEUT. HENRY FOSTEK. 



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stations, is essentially valuable. If it be new, it is 

 a clear gain to the stock already accumulated; if 

 not, it is still useful as a corroboration : and this 

 costs very little trouble, for a few practical obser- 

 vations, made during, or at the end of a voyage, 

 give immense additional value to the dry details of 

 a log-book. 



I have arranged the accounts of the different pas- 

 sages in the order in which they occurred, and have 

 confined myself strictly to the nautical details. 



A list of the latitudes and longitudes of the dif- 

 ferent places visited by the Conway is given at the 

 end of these notices. It has been extracted from a 

 Hydrographical Memoir drawn up by Mr Henry 

 Foster, master's mate of the Conway, and transmitted 

 by me to the Admiralty. That memoir contains mi- 

 nute directions for every port which we entered, to- 

 gether with a detailed Account of all the Nautical, 

 Hydrographical, and Astronomical Observations, 

 during the Voyages which we made along the vast 

 range of coast washed by the Pacific. It would 

 have given me much satisfaction to have printed 

 this work of Mr Foster's, had its nature not been 

 exclusively professional. But I take this public op- 

 portunity of bearing the strongest testimony to the^ 



