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, By JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL.D. IN THREE VOLUMES. luftrated with CUTS, and a great Variety of CHARTS and MAPS relative to Printed for W. STRAHAN; and T. CADELL in the Strand. M DCC LXXIII. TO THE KING. A 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 A 2 |