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Cook, who is univerfally allowed, except perhaps by Mr. Dalrymple, to be as good an officer and as able a navigator as the world has ever seen, he thinks himself at liberty to infinuate that, if I have not foifted in a paffage to difgrace him, his conduct and opinions scarcely deserve notice: Captain Cook, as his accufer well knows, is abfent, and cannot answer for himself, I must therefore inform him, first, that the declaration in queftion was not foisted in by me, every word of it in the fame order being in Captain Cook's journal; and fecondly, that Captain Cook's first and principal object being to obferve the Tranfit of Venus at Otaheite, he was justified in not spending time upon another object before he got thither, as a very small degree of fagacity would have difcovered, without foreign affiftance.

This Gentleman charges me with inconfiftency in faying, first, that the nautical events were minutely related, to ascertain the ship's track more minutely than could be done on any chart, however large the scale; and afterwards, that if any difference should be difcovered between the narrative and the charts, the charts fhould be confided in; but furely the narrative might in general afcertain the track more minutely than the chart, and yet poffibly admit a particular mistake which the chart might correct.

He mentions the following difagreements between the charts and narratives:

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Vol. II. p. 73. line 22." Howe's Point," there is no fuch Point in the Chart, it feems to be what is called Howard's Point in the Chart. P. 81. line 16. “ Keppel's Island," there is no fuch island in the Chart; it is there called Swallow's Inland. P. 87. 1. 3 from bottom," Winchelsea's Island,” is named in the Chart Lord Anfon's Ifland, and is laid down S. instead of S. by E. from Sir Charles Hardy's Iland; this appears to be the island Bougainville calls Bouku. P. 99. line 7. "Duke of York's Ifland," is called 7. Man in Chart. P. 99. 1. 3 from bottom. "Man," which is the little island

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For thefe differences whether trifling or important I am not anfwerable; the charts as I am informed were laid down by the feveral Commanders, or with their concurrence, from duplicates of the very papers from which I was at the fame time drawing up the narrative. I can anfwer for the fidelity of the narrative, and to fee that the charts were faithful was not my province; feveral of them I never faw, nor indeed could fee, till the book was nearly printed off, because they were not fooner finished; for that, in particular, in which the difagreements with the narrative that he has noted occur, the publication of the work was delayed several weeks.

*All the references in this paragraph are accommodated to this Edition.

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It is remarkable, that in the first line of the paragraph which points out mistakes in the references of the text to the chart, Mr. Dalrymple has fhewn his own fallibility by a miftake in his reference to my book; instead of line the first, it fhould have been line the eleventh.

That" Mr. Banks is in poffeffion of many "views of the land feen in the Endeavour's Voy

age which convey a more exact appearance of "the country than any words poffibly can," may be true; but does it therefore follow that I am in fault because engravings were not made from them? It was left to better judges to felect the drawings, and I did not even know which were copied, nor by whom, till I obtained a list of them and directions to the engravers, in order to get the cuts out of their hands.

I paffed over Torre's track in filence for the reason mentioned already, I had never feen Mr. Dalrymple's book in which it was laid down; I never had time to read for amusement, and my literary pursuits had not led me to that path in which alone this Gentleman feems to have wan-dered the greater part of his life. The two volumes which contain an account of the voyage of the Endeavour were written in little more than four months after the papers were put into my hands, because it was expected that Captain Cook would in that time fail on another expedition; and though he did not leave England till fome months afterwards, the manufcript was not returned to me till within a very fhort time of his departure,

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fo that I had no time to make myself mafter of the difpute concerning the existence or non existence of a fouthern continent; and if I had, I fhould not have thought myself at liberty to take a part in it, in a work in which I was little more than an amanuenfis for others.

And now, to use Mr. Dalrymple's own words, "having I flatter myself fhewn that his illiberal "infinuations against me are groundless," I must obferve that his fense of injury, when he fupposed that I had "attacked him by implication,

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as having misrepresented the Spanish and Dutch "voyages to fupport his own ill-grounded conjectures," should, if better motives had been wanting, have reftrained him from attacking by implication Gentlemen, who I prefume have never given him any offence except by not dif covering a fouthern continent, as having committed murder. "He refigns himself, he says, to Providence, although in the wifdom of its difpenfations he was prevented by the fecondary influence of narrow-minded men from completing the discovery of, and establishing an amicable intercourfe with, a fouthern continent; which, notwithstanding my fagacious reafonings, he still thinks, from his own experience in fuch like voy. ages, may be done without committing murder." Whether this does not by implication impute the death of every Indian who fell in the course of thefe discoveries, as murder to every person who was inftrumental in taking away his life, except those who acted immediately under military fubordination,

ordination, let Mr. Dalrymple himself determine; if it does, it is to be hoped that, for the honour of his humanity, he will be the affociate of those, whom he supposes to be murderers, no more.

By a reference from the word providence to the 24th page of my Introduction, Mr. Dalrymple feems to have adopted the notion of fome other ingenious and worthy Gentlemen who have lately honoured me with their notice in public, that what I have faid upon that fubject is inconfiftent with revealed religion. I have however affirmed nothing as my own opinion, but that the Supreme Being is the cause of all events, of which the attributing to him thofe only which appear to be good in their immediate effect, implies a denial. Upon the principles of revelation all physical or natural evil is judicial, and God is exprefsly faid to be the author of it in his judicial capacity. To Eve he faid, "I will greatly multiply thy for

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row ;" and to Adam, "Curfed is the ground " for thy fake, in the fweat of thy face fhalt "thou eat bread-and unto duft thou shalt re

"turn.' To fuppofe God therefore the Univerfal Caufe, notwithstanding the existence of natural evil, is not lefs confonant to revelation than philofophy.

That there are immutable laws, in confequence of which all events come to pass without the immediate agency of the Supreme Being, is not a pofition of mine; on the contrary, I say exprefsly, that the Supreme Being is perpetually VOL. I. operating,

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