5* 
A VOYAGE TO 
1779. readily acknowledge, that to have conduced three expedi- 
Febroap^ t j ons Q f p 0 muc ] 1 d an g e r and difficulty, of fo unufual a 
length, and in fuch a variety of Situation, with uniform 
and invariable fuccefs, muft have required not only a 
thorough and accurate knowledge of his bufinefs, but a 
powerful and comprehensive genius, fruitful in refources, 
and equally ready in the application of whatever the higher 
and inferior calls of the fervice required. 
Having given the moft faithful account I have been able 
to colledt, both from my own obfervation, and the relations 
of others, of the death of my ever honoured friend, and 
alfo of his character and Services; I Shall now leave his me¬ 
mory to the gratitude and admiration of posterity ; accept¬ 
ing, with a melancholy fatisfadtion, the honour, which the 
lofs of him hath procured me, of feeing my name joined 
with his; and of testifying that affedtion and refpedt foi 
his memory, which, whilst he lived, it was no lefs my in¬ 
clination, than my constant Study, to Shew him. 
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