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ther particulars of thefe friendiy Henderg? 
of the venerable Abba Thole, the tather 
cf Lee Boo? In return for en hof- 
pitable condu@t towards the crew of the 
Antelope, the Eaft India Company re- 
folved, in the beginning of the year 1790, 
to fend two veffels with prefents to the 
chiefs of the Pelew Hlands: the Paziher 
and Endeavour were fited cut for this 
fervice, under the command of Captain 
Maccluer. The particulars of this e772- 
bify, the reception it met with, &c. are 
narrated in thele pages in a plain and un- 
aff.éted manncr. 
“© A Chronological Hiflory, of Aa Difco- 
weries in the South Sea, or Pacifi c Ocean. 
—Part I. commencing with an Accouzt 
of the earlieft Difcovery of that Sca by 
Europeans, end terminating w ith ihe 
age of Sir Francis Drake, : in 157q. Liluf- 
trated with Si igete By James Bue- 
NEY, Captain iz the Royal Na wy.” 
Gieck with the ob laclos to an acquili- 
tion of knowledge in maritime geography, 
reful:ing from the want of a general ar- 
rangement to the multiplied an :d elaborate 
accounts of. voyages now in poflefficn of 
the public, Captain Burney meditated the 
practicability of forming a general digeft 
of maritime geograp! hical di :fcoveries, and 
has offered the prefent volume as a f{peci- 
men. 
As this is only the fir?, we truft, of a 
fucceffion, it may be proper to give a 
fketch of the projeéted plan. Captain 
Burney has two Tempo an objets i in view, 
elafification and gu ; after ftat- 
ing his pues againft a chronoleg.cal 
er national arrangement in a general hil- 
tory of voyages, he gives a decided pre- 
ference to the method o7 ae voy- 
ages, according to fome hyd trographical 
divifion of the gicbe, preferving to each 
the chronological Lee r of narration; he 
prepofes the following as on2 wh! ch ap- 
peais capable of prelerying its clafies in 
a great meafure ditintt from each other : 
the firtt clafs may contain the veyages to 
the north of Europe, thofe in the North 
Seas, and towards the N-erh Pole; the 
fecond, thofe aleng the weft coait of 
Africa to the Cape of Geod Hope, end 
the difcoveries of the Atlintic Iflards ; 
the third, eat from the Cape of Good 
Hope to Canina, inciuding the Eaftern 
Axcees elagos between New Holland and 
the ccait of China; Japan might have a 
fc&ion to itielf, as a lupp slement to this 
cl.is 5 the fourth might cc ntain the whole 
of the difcovery of the cafi hide of Ame- 
rica, except the Straits of Magalhanes 
and of Le Maire, which are more conneét- 
Voy- - 
Retrofpeti of Domeftic Literature.—Voyages, Trave’ STD 
ed math the voyages to the South Sea 
the fitth clafs may comprehend the cir- 
comnangeat ian and voyagcs to the South 
Seas. Wath thefe, the difcoveries on the 
the weft coaft of North America are fo 
much interwoven, that they cannot, with- 
out difadvantage, are feparated. The dif 
coveries made by the Ruffians in the feas 
near Kamfchatka, and from thence to the 
north, would appear not improperly as a 
fupplement to the fifth elafs. New Hol- 
land might form a fixthclafs This cevn- 
try would naturally have divided itfelf be- 
tween the third and fifth, had net its im- 
portance fo much increafed within the few 
jait years, that it now requires a diftinct 
clafs to itfeli, 
The foregoing divifion is offered as a 
fketch for a general plan. The clafles 
are capable of modification, according to 
the convenience or inclination ef ftiofe 
who may undertake any part of the tafk. 
Captain Burney ferved as leutcnant in 
the laft two voyages of toat great dilco- 
verer and excellent navig cater, Captain 
Cook. This accounts for his choice of 
the difcoveries made in the South Seas, 
as the fabje& of the preient work, to 
which difcoveries his attention has been 
principally dire&ted. This volume com- 
mences with a deicription of the natural 
limits of the Scuth Sea, and with a con- 
cife narrative of the difcoveries made and 
meditated prior ta the voyage of Magal- 
haens, a well written and clear account 
of which is drawn up from the detached 
and broken narratives which exift of that 
moft important and fuccefsful enterprize. 
Magalhaens was the firit who penetrated 
from the Atlantic to the South Sea, and 
contequenily the fir who was enabled to 
cli cumnavigate the globe. 
The poliibility, however, of failing 
round the fcuth point of Africa having 
reecntly been afcertained by the Portu- 
gueze, it had been already tufpeéted that 
America might terminate to the fourn- 
ward in a fimuiar manner, and in the year 
1514, a Voyace was projeéted for difcover- 
ing a pofage to the South Seas, by Juan 
Diaz de Sslis, who was killed at Rio de 
la Plata. The undertakmg was aban- 
doned, and this was the glory reterved for 
Magalhaens. 
Caot. Burney july confiders the voyage 
of Magalhaens, ‘* as one of the moft 
extreordinary and eveotful that has ever 
been performed—as a voyage which can- 
not be contemplated without producing 
imprefions only to be communicated by 
eriginal difcovery. While the advance- 
ment of fcience fhall continue to intereft 
mankind, 
