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OP NEW HOJiLAND. 57T Codk:—A Journal of a Voyage Bound the World in H.M.S. Biblio- Endeavour, in the Years 1 768, 1 769, 1 770, and 1 77 1. Containing gr aphy> all the various occurrences of the voyage, with descriptions, Ac. 4to., pp. ii, 130. London, 1771. This work contained a short account of Cook's voyage in the Endeavour. The publisher in his dedication expressed his con- viction that '* it is the production of a gentleman and a scholar who made the voyage." „ — An account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of his Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Widlis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dol- phin, Swallow, and the Endeavour. Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. By John Hawkesworth, LKD. 4ta, 3 vol& London, 1773. " The Run from New Zealand to Botany Bay '^ will be found in vol iii, pp. 481-649, Forster : — A Voyage Round the World in H.B.M. sloop Reso- lution, commanded by Capt James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4, and 5. By George Forster, P.RS. 4to., 2 vols. London, 1777. The author was the son of John Reinold Forster, who accom- panied Captain Cook as naturalist on the voyage. In his pre- face the author mentions that his father had published the " first specimen of his labours " in a work entitled — Characteres Generum Plantarum quas in Insulis Maris Australia colleg., kc 4to. Lond., 1776. Another work by the same author was published in 1778 under the title — Observations made during a Voyage Round the World on Physical Geography, Natural History, and Ethic Philosophy, by John Reinold Forster, LL.D., &c. 4ta London, 1778. The great field for colonisation in the southern part of the world foretold by Quiros — long forgotten, but afterwards revived by the works of de Broeses and Dalrymple — was made manifest by Cook's voyage. He had discovered the insularity of New Zealand, and sailed along the east coast of New Holland. The advantages which had thus been secured for Great Britain were emphasised in — Political Essays concerning the Present State of the British Empire. 4to., pp. 3, 463, 464. London, 1772. This may be considered the last word of the advocates of Aus- tralian colonisation, prior to the Expedition under Governor Phillip. Li 1776 the Declaration of Independence by the Thirteen Colonies of North America stopped the transportation of English Digitized by Google