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Dion Galeano and Don Cais de Valdés, 
joined the Englith fquadron, commanded 
by captain Vancouver, with an intention 
to examine the immenfe archipelago, 
known by the name of the admirals 
Ponte and Fuan de Fuca. 
They confumed the greater part of the 
year 1791 in vifiting the Mariannes and 
Philippines, as alfo Macas on the coatt of 
China. They afterwards paffed between 
the ,ifle Mendano and the ifles called 
Mountay, fhaping their courfe along the 
coats of New Guinea, and crofling the 
equator. On this occafion they difcover- 
ed a gulph of about 500 maritime leagues 
in extent, which no former navigator had 
ever traverfed. They then ftopped at 
New Zealand and New Holland, and dif- 
covered, in the archipelago called the 
Friendly Tles, the Babacos, a range of 
iflands which had never before been feen 
by any European mariner. 
After a variety of other refearches in 
the fouthern ocean, they arrived, in June, 
1793, at Callao. From this port they 
made other occafional expeditions; and 
each of the veffels feparately examined 
the Port of Coxception, and the reft of the 
coaft of America which extends to the 
fouth-weft, as well as the weftern coat 
of the Moluceas. They then entered the 
river /a Plata, after having furmounted 
all the dangers incident to thofe fouthern 
latitudes. 
Having been equipped and fupplied 
anew with provifions, at Montecedia, they 
joined a fleet of frigates and regifter thips, 
and failed for Cadiz, where they arrived 
after a paflage of ninety days, with car- 
goes to the amount of eight millions of 
dollars in money and merchandize. 
Thefe voyages have not a little con- 
tributed to the extenfion of butany, 
mineralogy, and navigation. In both he- 
mifpheres, and in a variety of different 
latitudes, many experiments were made 
relative to the weight of bodies, which 
will tend to very important difcoveries, 
connected with the irregular form of our 
globe; thefe will alfo be highly ufeful, 
fo far as refpeéts a fixed and general 
meafure. While examining the inha- 
bitants, our traveHers collected all the 
Monuments that could throw any light 
either on the migration of nations, or on 
their progrefs in civilization. Luckily 
for the interefts of humanity, thefe dif- 
coveries have not caufed a fingle tear to 
‘be fhed. 
On the contrary, all the tribes 
with whom they had any conne¢étion, will 
blefs the memory of thefe navigators, 
who have furnifhed them with uleful 
Spanifa Voyage of Difcovery. 
[ Nor. 
feeds, prefented them witha yariety of 
inftruments, and made them acquainted 
with feveral arts of which they were be- 
fore entirely ignorant. 
The veffels brought back nearly the 
whole of their crews ; neither of them, 
in fhort, loft more than three or four 
men; whichis wonderful, if we but con- 
fider the unhealthy climate of the torrid 
zone, to which they were fo long ex- 
pofed. 
Don Antonio de Valdés, the minifter 
of the marine, who encouraged and fup~ 
ported this expedition, with his accuftom- 
ed zeal, is bufied at this moment ia draw- 
ing up a detailed account of this voyage, 
fo as to render the enterprize of general 
tility. It will foon -be publithed ; and 
the curious will.be gratified with charts, 
maps, and engravings now preparing, to 
accompany it. 
In the mean time he has prefented to 
the king the captains Don Alex. Malef- 
pina, Don Jcfeph de Baftimente, Don 
Dion Galeano, and the lieutenant Don 
Carl. de Cevallos. Thefe officers are en- 
titled to, amd will foon experience, the 
royal munificence. 
Leiden, OG. 20, 1796. bi Sala 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ie the month of January, a gentleman, 
who ufes the fignature Curiofus, gave_ 
an intimation to the editor of a cotempo- 
rary Magazine, that, if it met with his 
approbation, to infert a lift of the places 
of worfhip occupied by diffenters, in 
England and Wales, he thought that he 
fhould have it in his power to tran{mit 
fuch an account, from a MS. of the late 
ingenious Mr. Robinfon, of Cambridge, 
author of the Hiftory of Baptifm, &c. 
Omitting to fulfil his engagement, Mr. 
Dyer, ia the month of July, urges upon 
him a compliance with his propofal. In 
the fuccee ding number, Curiofus informs 
Mr. Dyer, and the public, that this MS. 
of Mr. Robinfon’s, was, at that time, in 
the poffeffion of Mr. Lunn, bookfeller, in 
Cambridge; and that when he made ap- 
plication to buy it, he met with a dif- 
appointment, the book being fold. E 
am the perfon who bought this.MS.; 
and as I think it will be gratifying to 
many of your readers, I fhall have no 
objection to tranfcribe it for infertion in 
the Monthly Magazine. I fend it to 
the Monthly Magazine in preference te 
your cotemporary, as I think ar cere 
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