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 mistake 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 select the drawings, and I did not even know which were copied, nor by whom, till I obtained a lift 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 reafon mentioned already, I had never seen Mr. Dalrymple's book in which it was laid down; I never had time to read for amufement, and my literary pursuits had not led me to that path in which alone this Gentleman feems to have wandered 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 short time of his departure,

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fo that I had no time to make myself mafter of the dispute concerning the existence or non-ex istence of a fouthern continent; and if I had, I should 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 ufe Mr. Dalrymple's own words, "having I flatter myself fhewn that his illiberal "infinuations against me are groundless," I must obferve that his fenfe of injury, when he fupposed that I had "attacked him by implication, "as having misreprefented the Spanish and Dutch voyages to fupport his own ill-grounded con

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jectures," fhould, 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 secondary influence of narrow-minded men from completing the discovery of, and establishing an amicable intercourse with, a fouthern continent; which, notwithstanding my fagacious reasonings, he ftill 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 courfe 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 seems 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 caufe 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 phyfical or natural evil is judicial, and God is expressly said to be the author of it in his judicial capacity. To Eve he faid, "I will greatly multiply thy for"row ;" and to Adam, "Curfed is the ground "for thy fake, in the sweat 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 fay exprefsly, that the Supreme Being is perpetually VOL. I. operating,

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operating, for how otherwife can he "act through "all duration." My reafoning upon this principle relates to thofe only who maintain it; and I have fuppofed it, merely to preclude an objection that might be founded upon it, as will manifeftly appear to every attentive and intelligent Reader.

As I cannot but confider the poftfcript of this letter as a mere piece of pleafantry, I fhall only congratulate my correfpondent upon the tranfient gleam of good humour in which it was written, and difmifs him with my hearty wishes that such intervals for the future may be frequent and long.

As to any mistakes which affect neither the work nor Mr. Dalrymple, I might certainly retort upon him the principle advanced in his letter," that a certain degree of approbation is due to every performance intended for the public

information, however ill that performance may "be executed, without which it should not be "mentioned," he is however welcome to any pleasure which the violation of this principle has given him, and having now fhewn the attention which I thought due to his name, I fhall without repining, pay my part of the tax which is continually levied for the liberty of the prefs, however long, to the refpite of my betters, I may continue to be the favourite topic of anonymous defamation.

Bromley, Kent, zd August, 1773.

J. HAWKESWORTH.

EXPLANATION of the NAUTICAL TERMS not generally understood which occur in this WORK.

A

A.

BACK, the fituation of the fails when their

furfaces are flatted against the mafts by the force of the wind. The fails are faid to be taken aback, when they are brought into this fituation, either by a sudden change of the wind, or by an alteration in the ship's course. They are laid aback, to effect an immediate retreat, without turning to the right or left; in order to avoid fome danger.

ABAFT, the hinder part of à fhip.

AFT, behind, or near the stern of the ship.

ANCHOR, the principal are the sheet anchor, the best bower and the fmall bower, fo called from their fituation in the ship's bows. The smaller anchors, are the ftream anchor, the kedge anchor, and the grappling.

AWNING, a canopy of canvafs extending over the decks of a ship in hot weather.

AZIMUTH-COMPASS, an inftrument employed to difcover the magnetical azimuth or amplitude of any heavenly object. This operation is performed at fea, to find the exact variation of the magnetical needle.

B.

To BALANCE, to contract a fail into a narrower compass, in a storm, by retrenching or folding up a part of it at one corner.