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* life. No maritime geographer, of any age or country, can be compared to him. 
* His equal has never existed.’ 
« This illustrious navigator was employed in arranging materials which were to 
form a supplement to the second edition of the Neptune Oriental, when death 
deprived the world of this great man, on the 1st of March, 1780; but M. d’Apres 
de Blangy thought it a duty incumbent on him, for the public good, and for the 
honour of his brother-, to-publish this Supplement.” 
