A Voyage Round the World but More Particularily to the North-west Coast of America

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THOUGH that illuftrious navigator, Captain Cook, did not, with all his fkill and all his perfeverance, obtain the great object of his voyage to the weftern coaft of America, the difcovery of a practicable paffage from the North Pacific to the North Atlantic Ocean, he furnifhed philofophy with many additional facts, and he opened to commerce feveral extenfive profpects.