That account will, I doubt not, stand the test of the most learned and rigorous investigation.

Indeed, I have long been convinced, after the closest meditation of which I am capable, that sound philosophy and genuine revelation never militate against each other.

The rational friends of religion are so far from dreading the spirit of inquiry, that they wish for nothing more than a candid, calm, and impartial examination of the subject according to all the lights which the improved reason and the enlarged science of man can afford.
One great effect of the voyages made under the conduct of Captain Cook is their having excited a zeal for similar undertakings.

Other princes and other nations are engaged in expeditions of navigation and discovery.

By order of the French government, Mess.