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Excerpt from A Collection of Voyages and Travels, From the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 4 of 28
The pape1s of Captain Cook contained a very 1~a1t1cular account of all the nautical incidents of the voyage, and a very minute description of the figure and extent of the countries he had visited, with the bearings of the headlands and bays that diversify the coasts, the situation of the harbours in which ship ping may obtain refreshments, with the depth of water wherever there were soundings the latitudes, longitudes, variation of the needle, and such other particulars as lay in his department; and abundantly showed him to be an excellent ollicer, and skilful navigator. But in the papers which were communi. Cated to me by Mr. Banks, I found a great: variety ol incidents which had not come under the notice oi Captavi Cook, with descriptions of coiintries and people, their productions, manners, customs, re. Ligion, policy, and language, much more full and particular than n ere expected from a gentleman whose station and office naturally turned his principal at tention to other objects tor these particulars, there fore, besides many practical observations, the public is indebted to Mr. Banks. To Mr. Banks also the public is indebted for the des1gns of the engravings which illustrate and adorn the account of this voy age all of them except the maps, charts, and wows ol' the coasts as they appear at sea, being copied from his valuable drawings, and some of them from. Such as were made for the use of the artists at his expence.
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