In the DOLPHIN, the SWALLOW, and the ENDEAVOUR: DRAWN UP From the JOURNALS which were kept by the feveral COMMANDERS, By JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL.D. IN THREE VOLUMES. Illuftrated with CUTS, and a great Variety of CHARTS and MAPS relative to VOL. I. LONDON: Printed for W. STRAHAN; and T. CADELL in the Strand. то тнЕ KIN G. SIR, FTER the great improvements that have been made in Navigation fince the discovery of America, it may well be thought strange that a very confiderable part of the globe on which we live should still have remained unknown; that it should still have been the fubject of speculation, whether a great portion of the Southern Hemisphere is land or water; and, even where land had been discovered, that neither A 2 DEDICATION. neither its extent nor figure should have been ascertained. But the cause has probably been, that fovereign Princes have feldom any other motive for attempting the discovery of new countries than to conquer them, that the advantages of conquering countries which muft first be discovered are remote and uncertain, and that ambition has always found objects. nearer home. It is the diftinguishing characteristic of Your Majesty to act from more liberal motives; and having the best fleet, and the bravest as well as most able navigators in Europe, Your Majesty has, not with a view to the acquifition of treasure, or the extent of dominion, but the improvement of commerce and the increase and diffusion of knowlege, undertaken what has so long been neglected; and under Your Majesty's aufpices, in little more than seven years, discoveries have been made far greater than those of all the navigators in the world |