...plaufible philofophical arguments had been urged in its fupport , and many facts alleged in its favour. The writer of this narrative fully remembers how much...captivated, in the more early part of his life , with the hypothefis of a fouthern continent. He has often dwelt upon.it with rapture, and been highly «Iclighted...

...is rather amunng, and is a ftriking inftance of fanciful fentiments conveyed in frigid language : ' The writer of this narrative fully remembers how much...captivated, in the more early part of his life, with the hypothecs of a fouthern continent. He has often dwelt upon it with rapture, and been highly delighted...

...plansible philosophical arguments have been urged in its support, and many facts alleged in its favour. The writer of this narrative fully remembers how much...it with rapture, and been highly delighted with the anthors who contended for its existence, and displaved the mighty consequences which would result from...

...plausible philosophical ar'guments have been urged in its support, and many facts alleged in its favour. The writer of this narrative fully remembers how much...of a southern continent. He has often dwelt upon it wijih rapture, and been highly delighted with the authors who contended for its existence, and displayed...

...plausible philosophical arguments have been urged in its support, and many facts alleged in its favour. The writer of this narrative fully remembers how much...from its being discovered. Though his knowledge was inf1nitely exceeded by that of some able men who had paid a particular attention to the subject, he...

...Cook's biographer, writing in 1788. says he remembers how Cook's "imagination was captivated in the early part of his life with the hypothesis of a southern...continent. He has often dwelt upon it with rapture." The year following Dalrymple's dedication, Captain Cook, back from his first voyage in the Pacific,...

...its fupport, and many facts alleged in its favour. The writer of this narrative fully remember? bow much his imagination was captivated, in the more early part of his life, with the hypothefis of a fouthern continent. He has often dwelt upon it with rapture, and been highly delighted...

...had done their work. Twenty years later the first biographer of Cook looked back and fully remembered 'how much his imagination was captivated, in the more...mighty consequences which would result from its being discovered.'2 Of these authors, the principal one in England, who seems to have felt a rapture himself,...