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 pretenions are, the opportunity, it gives, mut erve to tetify my incere repect, my lating gratitude, for your favors; and I repoe with ome ecurity, on an extenion, of that protection, towards this volume, which has o often been the encouragement, of my profeional exertions.

The difficulties which navigators have experienced, in travering the South Seas and Pacific Ocean, have evidently, from the commencement of your connection with the Admiralty, excited your particular conideration: and it is certain, in all the changes to which that Board has been ubject, that the explorer of remote