rom enjoyment than cut off from the acquisition of
glory. How sincerely his loss was felt and lamented by those who had so
long found their general security in his skill and conduct, and every
consolation under their hardships in his tenderness and humanity, it is
neither necessary nor possible for me to describe, much less shall I
attempt to paint the horror with which we were struck, and the universal
dejection and dismay which followed so dreadful and unexpected a
calamity."

In commenting on Captain Cook's services, the same gentleman says:

"Perhaps no science ever received greater additions from the labours of
a single man than geography has done from those of Captain Cook. In his
first voyage to the South Seas he discovered the Society Islands;
determined the insularity of New Zealand, discovered the Straits which
separate the two islands, and are called after his name, and made a
complete survey of both. He afterwards explored the eastern coast of
New Holland, hitherto unknown, to an extent of twenty-seven degrees of
latitude, or upwards of two thousand miles." In succeeding years he
settled the disputed point of the existence of a great southern
continent traversing the ocean there between the latitudes of 40 degrees
and 70 degrees in such a way as to show the impossibility of its
existence, "unless near the pole, and beyond the reach of navigation."
(We may be permitted, in these days of general advancement, mental and
physical, to doubt whether any part of the globe is _absolutely_ "beyond
the reach of navigation!") He discovered also the islands of New
Caledonia and Georgia, and the Sandwich Islands; explored the western
coasts of North America into the frozen regions, and ascertained the
proximity of the two great continents of Asia and America. In short,--
to use the words of his biographer, which compress the nature and value
of the great navigator's services into a small and easily comprehended
point--"if we except the sea of Amur and the Japanese Archipelago, which
still remain imperfectly known to Europeans, he has completed the
hydrography of the habitable globe."

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Captain Cook has passed away, and the generation of men, with those whom
he benefited and those who slew him, has gone to its account, but the
coral islands remain as they were of old, resplendent with the beautiful
works of God, though not, _as of old_, marre