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INTRODUCTION. 
Mr. Webber were to be reduced by him to the proper lize; 
artills were next to be found out who would undertake to 
engrave 
ftate the heads of the feveral authorities which I have followed in fuch parts of the chart 
as differ from what was drawn up immediately under the infpe&ion of Captain Cook : 
And v/hen the Public are made acquainted, that many materials, neceffary to complete 
and elucidate the work, were not, at the time, on board the Refolution, or in his poffef- 
fion, the reafon will appear very obvious, why thefe alterations and additions were in¬ 
troduced contrary to the original drawing. 
Firft then, I have followed clofely the very excellent and corredt charts of the Northern 
Atlantic Ocean, publiftied by Meffrs. de Verdun de la Crenne, de Borda, et Pringre, in 
1775 and 1776 ; which comprife the coaft of Norway from the Sud Hoek, in the lati¬ 
tude of 62 degrees North, to Trelleburg, Denmark, the coaft of Holland, North coaft 
of Great Britain, Orkneys, Shetland, Ferro Ifles, Iceland, coafts of France, Spain, and 
Portugal, to Cape St. Maria on tire coaft of Africa; including the Azores, Canaries, 
Cape de Verd, Antilles, and Weft India illands from Barbadoes to the Eaft end of Cuba; 
the North part of Newfoundland and the Labradore coaft, as far as the latitude of 57 
degrees North. 
Ireland, and part of the coaft of Scotland, is laid down from Mr. Mackenzie’s late 
Purveys ; and the fouth coaft of England from a chart publiftied by Mr. Faden in 1780, 
taken from Mr. l’Abbe Dicquemare. 
The North part of the coaft of Labradore, Ppm the latitude of 57 0 North, to Button’s 
Illands in the entrance of Hudfon’s Strait, is taken from Monfieur Beilin’s chart, as is 
alfo the North coaft of Norway and Lapland, including the White Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, 
Baltic Sea, and the Eaft coaft of Greenland. 
The Gulf of Finland, from a large (MS) chart, now engraving for the ufe of fomc 
private merchants. 
The Weft India illands, from the Eaft end of Cuba to the Weft end, including Ja¬ 
maica and the Bahama illands, are from a chart publiftied in London by Sayer and Ben¬ 
nett, in 1779. 
The South fide of Cuba, from Point Gorda to Cape de Cruz, is laid down from Mon¬ 
fieur Beilin, in 1762. 
The coafts of Newfoundland, and the Gulf of St. Laurence, from the Purveys made 
by Captain Cook, and Meffrs. Gilbert and Lane. 
Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Illand of St. John, River St. Laurence, Canada, and New 
England to the River Delaware, from J. F. W. des Barres, Efq; in 1777 and 1778 ; 
and charts publiftied in France by order of the King, in 1780, intituled, Neptune 
Americo-Septentrional, &c. And from thefe charts alfo are taken the coafts of Pen- 
fylyania, New Jerfey, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Eaft 
and 
