COMMODORE BYRON And CAPTAIN COOK,

CAPTAIN WALLIS,

In the DOLPHIN, the SWALLOW, and the ENDEAVOUR:

DRAWN UP

From the JOURNALS which were kept by the feveral COMMANDERS,
And from the Papers of JOSEPH BANKS, Efq;

By JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL.D.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

luftrated with CUTS, and a great Variety of CHARTS and MAPS relative to
Countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known.

Printed for W. STRAHAN; and T. CADELL in the Strand.

M DCC LXXIII.

TO THE

KING.

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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 subject of speculation, whether a great portion of the Southern Hemisphere is land or water; and, even where land had been discovered, that neither

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