From the British discoveries many commercial improvements may be expected to arise in our own times: but, in future ages, such improvements may be extended to a degree, of which, at present, we have no conception.

In the long chain of causes and effects, no one can tell how widely and beneficially the mutual intercourse of the various inhabitants of the earth may hereafter be carried on, in consequence of the means of facilitating it, which have been explored and pointed out by Captain Cook.
The interests of science, as well as of commerce, stand highly indebted to this illustrious navigator.

That a knowledge of the globe on which we live is a very desirable object, no one can call in question.

This is an object which, while it is ardently pursued by the most enlightened philosophers, is sought for with avidity, even by those whose studies do not carry them beyond the lowest rudiments of learning.

It need not be said what gratification Captain Cook hath provided for the world in this respect.