MEMORY OF CAPTAIN COOK. 
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larged natural philofophy ; have extended nautical fcience ; 
and have difclofed the long-concealed and admirable arrange¬ 
ments of the Almighty in the formation of this globe, and, at 
the fame time, the arrogance of mortals, in prefuming to ac¬ 
count, by their fpeculations, for the laws by which he was 
pleafed to create it. It is now difcovered., beyond all doubt, 
that the fame Great Being who created the univerfe -by his 
fiat, by the fame ordained our earth to keep a juft poife, with¬ 
out a correfponding Southern continent—and it does fo ! “ He 
66 fir etches out the North over the empty place, and hangeth 
“ the earth upon nothing Job, xxvi. 7. 
If the arduous but exact refearches of this extraordinary 
man have not difcovered a new world, they have difcovered 
feas unnavigated and unknown before. They have made us 
acquainted with {/lands , people and productions, of which we 
had no conception. And if he has not been fo fortunate as 
Americus to give his name to a continent, his pretenftons to 
fuch a diftinction remain unrivalled ; and he will be revered, 
while there remains a page of his own modeft account of his 
voyages, and as long as mariners and geographers ftoall be in- 
JlruCted, by his new map of the Southern hemifphere, to trace 
the various courfes and difcoveries he has made. 
If public fervices merit public acknowledgments; if the man 
who adorned and raifed the fame of his country is defer ving of 
honours, then Captain Cook deferves to have a monument 
raifed to his memory, by a generous and grateful nation, 
Virtutis uberrimum alimentum eft honos, 
Val. Maximus, Lib, ii. Cap. 6. 
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