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REMARKS 
 
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 MEARES's VOYAGES. 
 
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 REMARKS ON the VOYAGES 
 
 O V 
 
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 JOHN METRES, Efq. 
 
 IN A LETTER TO THAT GENTLEMAN, 
 
 B Y 
 
 GEORGE DIXON, 
 
 LATE COMMANDER OF THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE, 
 IN A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. 
 
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 T O 
 
 JOHN M E A R E S, Esq. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 WHEN voyages, of whatever nature, whether for the 
 purpofes of exploring countries hitherto unknown, or 
 of promotlnp; ufeful and important branches of commerce, arc un- 
 dertaken, and the i-efult of them Is deemed of fufficient importance 
 to be publicly communicated to the world, we naturally expert to 
 meet both with tntertainment and inftrudion. It has indeed 
 been the cuftom perhaps formerly, for travellers both by land and 
 water, to indulge their ideas in defcribing countries which perhaps 
 never exifted but in their own imagination, and this from a fup- 
 
 pofition that no one would be hardy enough to contradi(ft them 
 
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6 REMARKS ON 
 
 by adual obfervation ; and confequently when mankind were 
 agreeably entertained, their end was anfvvcrcd. 
 
 However, in tliis enlightened age, we naturally exped, not 
 only agreeable entertainment, but information which may be de- 
 pended on ; and more efpecially in works where to difcovery, is 
 added the elucidation of a branch of commerce, which, though 
 yet in its infancy, may hereafter be of the utmoft importance to 
 this country. Of this nature I conceived the work lately pub- 
 liflied by you, entitled, " Voyages made in the years 1788 and 
 1 789, from China to the North-weft coaft of America. To which 
 are prefixed. An IntroduAory Narrative of a Voyage performed 
 In 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka; Obfervations on the 
 probable Exiftence of a North-weft Paflage ; and fomc Account of 
 the Trade between the North-weft coaft of America and China, 
 and the latter country and Creat-Britain," to be, and accordingly 
 perufed it with eagcrnefs and attention ; and more efpecially, as 
 having myfelf been engaged in the fame employment, I natu- 
 rally cxpeded to find my knowledge of the geography of the 
 North-weft coaft of America increafed, and that your labours had 
 been properly devoted to encourage difcovery, navigation, and 
 " J commerce. 
 
MEARES's VOYAGES. f 
 
 commerce. Gucfs, then, Sir, my furpri/e, when I found your 
 pompous publication fcarcely any thing more than a confufcd 
 heap of contradidions and mil'rcprefcntations. 
 
 
 To point out half your abfurdities, would fill a volume large as 
 your own, and require much more time than 1 at prcfent can 
 fpare; however, the duty I owe the public and n\yillf, obliges 
 me not to pafs them over in filcnce : I flrall, therefore, without 
 further preface, point out foinc of your numerous errors, as they 
 occurred to me on peruiing them. 
 
 In page 38 of your Introdudory Voyage, you fay, " Before I 
 conclude this note, I (hall remark on the declaration of Captain 
 Dixon, in the account of his voyage, that the diforder which fo 
 fcverely afflidcd my crew, arofe from their uncontrouled applica- 
 tion to fpirituous liquors» 
 
 "In the firft place, the aflcrtion is not founded in fad ; and" 
 fccondly. Captain Dixon's crew and himfelf being vifited by a 
 fimilar afBidion, I have an equal right to retaltate the fame accu- 
 fation upon him." 
 
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 8 REMARKS ON 
 
 As I am not the author of the above declaration, whether true 
 or fallc, I have nothing to do whh it. I ronumber, on reading 
 that part in the bookalhided to, that I en([uircd of Mr. Bcrcsford, 
 oil what authority tiie paflage was infertcd ; his anfvver was, From 
 Captain Mcarcb's own people. Mr. Reresford is at pix-lcnt ii» 
 London, and can, I d()u])t not, give a fatisfadory anfvver to any 
 qucftion that may be alkcd him on this head. 
 
 In page 201, Voyages to the North-weft coaft of Amcrici;, you 
 have the following note: " On ciujuiring of Captain Duncan, con- 
 cerning his diftrcflcd condition, he told me that he had met Cap- 
 tain Dixon, in the Queen Charlotte ; and, though that fliip was on 
 lier return to China, and abundantly ftocked with every thing ; 
 and though Ihe belonged to the fame owners with the Princcfs 
 Royal, the provident commander thought it much better to carry 
 all his {lores back to China, than to fpare any of them to the latter 
 vefTel, though they would have been fo great an alleviation to the 
 the hardfhips of her voyage." 
 
 Any perfon, on reading the above note, would naturally con- 
 clude, that, at the time I met with Captain Duncai., I had lately 
 
 come. 
 
MEARI'. S'a VOYAGES. 9 
 
 come from China with plenty of ftorcs of every kind on hoard, 
 and yet fo inhumane as to rcfiifc any of thcin to a ftilow-crcature 
 and countryman in diflrefs ; cfpecially m you fay in the note, 
 " carry them l)ack to China." 
 
 The fi\(5t, liovvcvcr, was di redly to the contrary. I fell In 
 with Captains Duncan and Colnett near the place wliere you met 
 them, after having hccn from England twenty-three months, and 
 never near China during that period. They had been fron\ 
 England only eleven months. I fupplied them witli a puncheon 
 of molafTcs, a hogfliead and a harnefs-cafk of Sandwich llland 
 pork, what trade they wanted, and a copy of my charts. 
 
 Captain Duncan had alfo a copy of whatever part of my log- 
 book he ehofc ; for which purpofc, he was on board the O^ieen 
 Charlotte, together with Mr. John Etches, all one niglit. 
 
 Wine, tobacco, and portable foup, they had procured from 
 Captain Barclay, when in King George's Sound (which place 
 they had left only two or three days), and for which I afterwards 
 paid him near 400 Spanifli dollars la China, agreeable to the re- 
 
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10 REMARKSoN 
 
 qiieft of Mr. John Etches. My four krout was all expended, 
 and I had neither porter nor cheefc : Indeed I never had much 
 of either ; the greateft part of that 1 had on leaving England, was 
 fent me as a pre nt by my late worthy commander, John 
 Gore, Efq. of Greenwich Hoipltal, and Captain Stephenfon of 
 Wapping. 
 
 In page 54 of your " Obfei-vations of the probable exlftencc 
 of a North-weft paffage, &c." fpeaking of the King George and 
 Chiton Charlotte, after giving a pompous account of their outfits, 
 &c. you obferve, that " their voyage was tedious and dilatory ; 
 a-^d their fuccefs, both with refped to comi lerce or difcovery, 
 by no means adequate to their fuperior equi})ment." 
 
 In order to afcertain what additions I made to the geography 
 of the North-weft toaft, be fo kind, Sir, as take the trouble of 
 comparing my chart with any former one ; a copy of which, ex- 
 tending from lat. 51" N. to 55° 30' was given to you I believe 
 by John Henry Cox, '£''•% of Canton, fome time before you failed 
 for the coaft of Ameri :a ; at the fame time, he gave you a. copy 
 of Captain Barclay's chait from Noocka Sound to the Southward, 
 4 along 
 
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 along the coaft as far, or n .rly fo, as you went ; together with a 
 chart of the coaft, or at leaft that part of it, which Don Francifco 
 Maurelle had touched at, and all the information that could be 
 obtained from Captains Hannah, Lowrie, and Guife.— A fliort 
 ftatement of what I did refpeaing commerce, will eafily ^ettle that 
 point. 
 
 I colleded on the North-weft coaft, 2000 fea-otter ikins, 100 
 fur-feal, feveral land-beaver, land-otter, martin, fox, bear, marmott • 
 and other Ikins ; bgfides a large quantity of inferior pieces of fea- 
 otter Ikins. Now, Sir, thefe, according to your probable ar'itb^ 
 met'ic^ fhould have been fold in China for confiderably more than 
 c 00,000 Spanifh dollars ; but, ftrange to tell, even with the addi- 
 tion of Captain Portlock's, which made the number of fea-otter 
 fkins 2552, and confiderably added to the number of other forts 
 of inferior value, they only fetched 54,857 Spanilh dollars at the 
 Chinefe market; yet believe me. Sir, I neither divided avy of them 
 amongft my people.nox fold^/y on my o-xvn account. — If you would willi 
 to be informed why they fold for fo fmall a fum, plcafe to enquire 
 of Mr. Richard Cadman Etches, as you feem to be well acquainted 
 with him j he, I doubt not, can give you every flitisfaQion on 
 
 . that 
 
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 ,4 REMARKS ON 
 
 that fubjed. — As a further proof of our ^'fticcefs in commerce ^^ 
 I fhall here prefent you with a comparative ftatement of the quan- 
 tity of fea-otter (kins brought to China by different fhips, which 
 Mr. Cox very obligingly favoured rae with. 
 
 Sea-otter Jkiits, 
 
 Captain Hanna, firft voyage 560 
 
 Ditto fecond ditto lOO 
 
 And of flips and pieces 300 fold as 60 fldns 
 
 Captains Lowrie and Guife - 604. 
 
 Captain Mearcs, firft voyage - 357 
 
 Captain Barclay -. -^ 800 
 
 Captains Portlock and Dixon 
 
 2481 
 
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 Total number of fea-otter fkins 5033 ; all which, including 
 434 cub, and 34 fox (belonging to the King George and Queen 
 
 Charlotte), 
 
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 Charlotte), fold for 1 46,842' Spanifh dollars in China; and, taken 
 at a mean, makes nearly 29 I dollars per Ikin. 
 
 I fhould have been happy to have included in the above ftate- 
 ment, the furs brought to the Chinefe market by yourfelf your 
 fecond voyage, and alfo thofe belonging to the Prince of Wales 
 and Princefs Royal. Thefe accounts you had it in your pov^rer to 
 have laid before the public ; but, for reafons beft known to your- 
 felf, you have thought proper to keep them fecret. However, 
 from what I have already done, the world will be able to judge 
 whether your ftatement of real and probable lofles is accurate, or 
 fallacious. 
 
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 In the paragraph juft quoted, you fay, " They (the King 
 George and Queen Charlotte) were authorifed to make fettle- 
 ments, and form fadlories." I fhould be glad to be informed by 
 you, Sir, how it was pofHble for this to be done, when all my 
 people, to a man, had figned articles to return with the fhip ? 
 
 You proceed in the fame page, " After thefe fhips had fepa- 
 rated, the Qiieen Charlotte proceeded to the fouthward of Prince 
 
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 REMARKS ON 
 
 William's Sound ; and continuing her courfe to that part of the 
 coaft named by Captain Cook, Behring's Bay, ihe entered a 
 port which then received the name of Port Mulgrave. Captain 
 Dixon then proceeds to the Cape Edgcumbe of Cook, and from 
 thence traces the coaft till he arrived in a port whicli was 
 honoured with the appellation of Port ]anks ; and finally dlfco- 
 vered the northern part of thofe iflands, whofe fouthern extremity- 
 was firft difcovered, as has been already mentioned, by Captains 
 Lowrie and Guife. The fhip then takes her courfe down the 
 weftern fide of thefe iflands, and, rounding the fouthern extremity 
 of them, proceeds partly between them, and what was at that ' 
 time fuppofed to be the Continent of America ; but, apprehenfive 
 of being entangled among thefe iflands, (he quitted them at once, 
 and proceeded on her voyage to China." 
 
 Eor what I did, after parting company with Captain Portlock, 
 I refer to the Account of my Voyage ; and fliall only remark, 
 that, after being on the coafts of Queen Charlotte's Iflands for a 
 month, the time drew near (Aug. 15, 1787) when I was, by my 
 inftruaions, to expc<Sl Captain Portlock in King George's Sound. 
 This circumftance, and not the " apprehenfion of being en- 
 tangled 
 
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 tangled among thcie iflimds," induced me to K.:ve them, and 
 fteer for that place ; off which I fell in \vlth.Ca.ptp/ms Colnet and 
 Duncan, as has already been related. They hifcrmcd me, that 
 Captain Portlock was not in the Sound, neither were there any 
 furs to be procured ; as a Captain Barclay had lately left it, and 
 failed to the Southward ; in confequence of which, I determined 
 to fteer for Sandwich Iflands. 
 
 That Captains Lowrie and Guife faw the Southern parts of 
 Queen Charlotte's Iflands in 1786 I do not difpute; and I hope 
 you will admit, that both Captain Portlock and myfelf fell in wi*:h 
 tbefe iflands in company the fame year, near Hippah Ifland ; 
 but if this is to be called a difcovery^ I am inclined to think the 
 Spaniards may claim a right to it ; for it appears by the general 
 chart to Captain Cook's laft voyage, that they muft have feea 
 this land in the year 1775, and I dare venture to fay knew as 
 much of it then as either Captains Lowrie, Guife, Portlock, or 
 myfelf did in 1786. What I obferved of them the enfuing year 
 is fairly ftated, both on my chart, and in the voyage to which it 
 is annexed. 
 
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 REMARKS ON 
 
 In the voyages to the North-weft coaft of America, fpeaklng of 
 Ov.hyhec, p. 343, you obferve, that " Though feveral European 
 veilcls have been ofF the ifland, yet the Iphigenia alone had 
 anchored in Karakakooa Bay, 6cc." 
 
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 As it appears by a note In p. 38 of your Introdudory Voyage, 
 that you have read tlie voyage performed in the Queen Chai'lotte, 
 and confefiucntly an account of her tranfadions at Owhyhce, It 
 appears ftrange that you flrould fo roundly aflert, that no veflel, 
 the Iphigenia excepted, had anchored there ilnce the death of 
 Captain Cock. This, however, is but of a piece with the x'^ft 
 of your mifreprefcntaticns ; and to refute it, I fhall only refer lo 
 the account of my voyage, page 50, &c. 
 
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 A little fuither (page 354) you tell us of Captain Douglas be- 
 ing informed by a chief at Owhyhce, " That Taheo had been 
 furnifhed by the Captains Portlock, Dixon, &c. with a quantity 
 of arms and ammunition, on the exprefs condition that he would 
 not aiTord any fupplies whatever to Captain Meares or his aflb- 
 
 ciates. 
 
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 MEARES's VOYAGES. 
 
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 Pray what coind induce you to infert fo pretty a (lory ? It 
 certainly muft be from a firm belief of its being a fa£l ; but you 
 ought firft to have confidered the corroborating circumftances ; 
 which as you feem not to have done, I will endeavour to do 
 for you. 
 
 When I was laft at the Sandwich Iflands, you muft have been 
 at, or near China, and, as I thought, had taken leave of them for 
 ever ; neither at that time had I the moft diftant idea of feeing 
 them again. 
 
 Admitting this to be the cafe, is it probable that I Ihould give 
 arms and ammunition to Indians, on the " exprefs conditions" of 
 not affording fupport to a perfon whom I had every reafon to 
 think would never come near the place ? The fuppofition is ri- 
 diculous, and fcarcely deferves a ferious refutation : But I declare, 
 that I never gave or traded away at the Sandwich Iflands, or any 
 other place, to an Indian, either mufquet, piftol, or a grain of 
 powder ; and I defy you to prove the contrary. Yourfelf and 
 your aflbciates, however, feem not' to have been very delicate in 
 this refpedl j for it appears by your own account *", that you 
 
 • Voyages to the North-weft Coaft of Ameriru, page 19^), &c. 
 
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 have furniflied the Indians with dangerous and deftrudive wea- 
 pons, and the confequence was " a moft fhocking fcene of blood 
 and mafliicre." Pray how do you reconcile anions like this with 
 that " milk of human kindnefs" which you endeavour to make 
 tlie public believe you are pofieflfed of? 
 
 !n your " Obfervatlons on the probable Exlftcnce of a North- 
 Weft Paflage," fpeaking of Captain Barclay, you obferve, that 
 " he performed the whole of the voyage in twelvemonths, which 
 employed the King George and Queen Charlotte upwarxls of two 
 
 years." 
 
 Have you forgot, Sir, ihat Captain Barclay went no farther to 
 the Northward than King George's Sound, and was only three 
 months on the coaft, and that the King George and Queen Char- 
 lotte were there two feafons? Pray, good Sir, recoiled your- 
 felf, and I truft I fhall hear no more of fuch invidious compari- 
 fons. 
 
 Your mifreprefentations are not, however, confined to me alone. 
 Captain Duncan next comes in for his fhare. You obferve, that 
 ^ He occupies almoft a whole fummer in this ftation, (c:iueen 
 
 Charlotte's 
 
MEARES's VOYAGT^S. f^ 
 
 Charlotle's Ifles), and yet, ftrange as it may appear, quits the 
 coaft of America without knowing tliat Captain Douglas had 
 already taken the fame courfe." — ^Vide Obfervations on the pro- 
 bable Exiftence, &c. page 54. 
 
 1 acknowledge myfelf entirely at a lofs to know what you 
 mean by this aflertlon ; for, if you wifh it to be underflood that 
 Captain Douglas was gone to China, that certainly was not the 
 cafe ; and if you mean to infmuate that he was in the Archipe- 
 jago before Captain Duncan, there again you muft be wrong ; for 
 at the time you faw Captain Duncan off King George's Sound, 
 in his way to China, we fmd Captain Douglas at Crofs Cape by 
 jour own account *« 
 
 In your Introdudory Voyage, page 10, fpeaking of fkin- 
 canoes, are thefe words: " The canoes of this make, extend from 
 the ft raits of the two continents along the coaft as far as Cape 
 Edgecumbe.'* 
 
 Here you ought to have added, ** for any thing you knew »c 
 the contrary ;" for I aflert it as a pofitive fad, that the wood 
 
 ( MC-':. 
 
 * Voyages to the North-weft Coaft, pnge 353. 
 
 brought 
 
ao RE^ARKSoN 
 
 brought to England by me, and whidi I prefented to Sir Jofcph 
 Hanks, came from Port Mulgrave, which is fituated in 59' 33^ 
 North latitude, and iAO» Weft longitude ; and that during the 
 A-liolc of my ftay there, I never law one/m-canoe. 
 
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 But your knowledge is certainly unbounded, and fuch as I 
 believe no mortal before yourfelf ever poffcflld ; for I fmd in your 
 Introdudory Voyage, page 4, the following remarkable paflage : 
 " It had, indeed, been one continued fog ever lince we crofled 
 
 the latitude 25" i ^^^ ^^'°^ ^^'^^^ ^'^^^ ^"^^ ^^^^ "°' '^'^'^^ *^'^ ^° 
 make more than two obfervations. We very fortunately had a 
 time-piece on board, which proved of the greateft utility." It 
 would be of the utmoft fevvice to the world, and more particu- 
 larly thofe who are any way mtcrefted in navigation, if you would 
 inform them what became of you/ invaluable time-piece. Pray, 
 what were her principles, .ind who was the makei ? for flie cer- 
 tainly muft have been wonderfully conftrudted. I had a pocket 
 time-piece, made by Mr. John Arnold of London, who I have 
 hitherto thought to be one of the firft makers in that line in this 
 kingdom, if not in the world: but I now find myfelf miftaken; 
 for I am free to confefs, that mine was not of the leaft utility to 
 me at fca, unlefs I could lee both the fun and the horizon. 
 
 In 
 
MEARES's VOYAGES. 
 
 41 
 
 h\ your Introiluaory Voyage, page 38, you take notice of ;i 
 very extraordinary race of people, and add, " They had never 
 been before fccn by any navigator ; and had not a favourable 
 wind fprung up in the night, we intended to have paflcd a few 
 days among them. The latitude of this part of the coaft is ii\ 
 56° 38' North, and the longitude 223^0' 25" Eall of Green- 
 wich." 
 
 According to the latitude jufl: quoted, this fliould be near tlie 
 North fide of the c^^trance into Port Banks ; but the land, as laid 
 down both in your chart, and mine, mull err T 30' in longitude, 
 as we differ that dlftance from your own obfervation, which I 
 make no doubt muft be very accurate, as yc have fet it down to 
 the grcatcjl m'mutice^ viz. fcconds : But as to your being the firft na- 
 vigator that ever fiiw thefe extraordinary people^ is to me by no 
 means equally clear; for I had been for fome time at anchor In 
 Norfolk Sound, trading with the natives there ; had left that place, 
 and even Port Banks, by the 26th of June, and you did not ar- 
 rive there before the i ft or 2d of July. I aUb faw the fame kiml 
 of people at Port Mulgrave in May * : hefidcs all thi.^ the Spa- 
 niards muft certainly have feen them fo early as 1775. 
 
 • \T 
 
 Vide Duon'i Voyage, page 172. 
 
 Wo 
 
22 
 
 R K M A II K S ON 
 
 \Vc arc told in page sC^ of the " Obfcrvations oti the prohahle 
 Exigence, &c." tliat " The Walhhigton entered the ftraits of Jolin 
 dc lucM, the knowledgi; of wliich (he had received from us. 
 Vou alio obiciw, that " The track of this veflel is of great 
 momeiU." lie fo good, Mr. Mcarcs, as to inform the public 
 from what authority you introduce this track in your chart ? 
 
 I have read your amufing and iiijlninive book again and again, 
 and cannot find any account of it ; I therefore ftrongly fufpeft 
 it never was taken from any adual furvey, but has been intro- 
 duced into your chart merely aa a pretty variety to fill up a 
 blank ; and I cannot think of any thing it refembles fo much 
 as the mould of a good old hcufewife's butter pat. 
 
 In your Account of the Trade between North-weft Americii 
 and China, (page 68), you obferve, that "Two, ofthefmall 
 number of (hips which have failed hither, have been wrecked, 
 and others have proved unfortunate, either from the bad manage- 
 ment or ignorance of their conductors." 
 
 I befeech 
 
MEARES^s VOYAGES. 
 
 «.1 
 
 I bcfccch you, in the next edition of your valuable hook, to 
 alter this paflage ; for, as it ftands at prcfent, I am afraid it is 
 rather too pointed at your own conduit. 
 
 The reception you met with at the Sandwich Iflands, on your 
 return from the Weftcrn coaft of America to China, was very 
 flattering; your account of it * fays, "We remained here a 
 month, during which time the iflanders appeared to have no 
 other pleafure, but what arofe from fliewing kindnefs, and cxer- 
 cifing hofpitality to us." And what return, I would wifli to afk, 
 did you make for all this kindnefs and hofpitality? If your 
 anfwer is not at hand, I can furnifh you with a true one ; you 
 fired four-pound fliot amongft them on fhore. Should you wifli 
 to know from what authority I make this aflertion, I anfwer, 
 from Mr. Rofs your chief mate. — The laft time I was at 
 Onehow, the natives gave me to underftand fomething about the 
 matter, though I could not rightly comprehend what (hip had 
 done it ; but on my mentioning the circumftance to Mr. Rofs, 
 he frankly owned it was Captain Meares's, and that it was in 
 confequence of a quarrel which originated on fome of the 
 
 Introriuftory Voyage, page 39. 
 
 Indians 
 
24 
 
 REMARKS ON 
 
 Indians fteallng either the cat-block or fifh-hoolr, I do not at 
 prcfent rccollca which : Mr. Rofs added, that he and feveral of 
 your people were on fliore the day after this affray happened, 
 when the inhabitants produced feme of the fhot you had ordered 
 to be fu-cd amongft them, and wanted nauch to know for what 
 reafon you had done it ; at the lame time they ufed him and the 
 people with him exceedingly well. I fliould have imagined that 
 a perfon of Mr. Meares's/r////^ and humanity, might have fettled 
 a bufmefs of this kind amicably, or at Icaft without adopting 
 fuch rigorous meafures : your condud, however, on this occafion, 
 clearly points out the reafon for their cool behaviour to you 
 the laft time you vifited them, and which has already been 
 noticed. 
 
 In your " Obfervatlons on the Probability of a North-weft Paf- 
 fage, &c." fpeaking of Cr->tain Cook, you fay, " The weather in 
 this important part of the voyage was fo unfavourable, that the 
 fliips were prevented from approaching the coaft ; for, though the 
 Felice and Iphigenia did explore thefe latitudes, {^(i° to 
 47° North) yet there is every reafon to lament that Captain Cook 
 was himfelf prevented from fuch an examination as would have 
 proceeded from him.' 
 
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 ive 
 
ME ARES's VOYAGES. 
 
 ^S 
 
 Give me leave here, Si/, to compliment you on j-our modcfty ; 
 you fay that the Felice and Iphlgenia " did explore' the lati- 
 tudes juft mentioned ; yet, in the fame breath, you lament that 
 Captain Cook was prevented from doing it. — No notice how- 
 ever is taken by you of what either Captains Duncan or Barclay 
 have done towards furveying this part of the coafl ; this country 
 is indebted only to the Commanders of the Felice and Iphigenia ;" 
 for you tell us, (page 17), " Thus has been unveiled the whole 
 of the American coaft, particularly thofe parts between the lati- 
 tude 50" and $1"" North, and 47° and 48° North ; and furely this 
 furvey gives room for fomething more than conjecture on the 
 fubjeft." 
 
 I find in the Hime Obfervations, (p^ge 50), fpcaking of the 
 Straits of John de Fuca, the following paflage : " If it fhould 
 be afked why thefe Straits were not penetrated, or at leall fome 
 attempt made to penetrate them ? the anfwer is at hand ; — the 
 deftruftion of our commercial enterprize by the fhips of liis 
 Catholic Majefty." 
 
 "What a pity! the Dons fliould be made to pay well for this ; for 
 long before this time, you \von\^^ probably have been in Englanil 
 
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 b 
 
26 REMARKS on 
 
 by way of the North-weft paflage ; for difcovering which, tlicre 
 is a reward of;^'20,ooo: I hope and truft you will not forget to 
 include this, cither in the aBiial or probable lofles you have fuf- 
 tained. 
 
 Having in your " Obfervations, &c. on the probable exiftence 
 of a North-weft Pafl*age," page 48, favoured us with an attempt to 
 prove the probability of a communication between Cook's River 
 and the Southernmoft part of Baffin's Bay, or the Northernmoft 
 part of Pludfon's Bay, into the Atlantic Ocean, you proceed, 
 " For it fliould be remembered, that in the higheft known latitude 
 of Cook's River, no impediment was obferved to the further pro- 
 grefs of fliips, either from rocks, flioals, or a want of a due depth 
 of water ; the channel, on the contrary, appearing capacious and 
 extenfive, and abounding with whales." I fhould be glad to 
 know on whofe authority you make the above aflertion ? for I 
 cannot find, after perufing your account of Captain Douglafs's 
 voyage, and your own alfa, that either of you were fo high up this 
 river, or higher than 60° 30' North latitude ; or that you had boats 
 higher than the narrows ; and Captain Cook, in his chart of that 
 river, [vide Cook's laft voyage), evidently fliews the contrary ; for 
 
 he 
 
MEARES's VOYAGES. 27 
 
 he has laid down a large fhoal above the narrows^ on which the 
 fhip grounded ; and the depth of the water, as put down on that 
 chart, (an authority which I prefume you are not difpofed to con- 
 trovert) decreafe?. 
 
 Neither do I find in his book the leafl: notice taken of their 
 feeing any whales. However, fhould any future navigator, on the 
 credit of your affertion, (which, begging your pardon, I fcarcely 
 think they will), go up there to catch whales, and be difappointed, 
 for their encouragement, I can venture to affirm, they may obtain 
 plenty of frelh falmon. 
 
 Again, at page 57, after producing a variety of what you call 
 *' corroborating proofs" offormer writers, are thefe words : " If 
 thefe particulars can be fuppofed to have any weight, how much 
 wull it be encreafed when it is known that ^ips have reached 
 between 61 and 62 degrees of latitude in Cook's River, where a 
 navigable ftrait of confiderable extent appeared to their view, free 
 from ice, or impediments of any kind, and where the rife and 
 fall of the tide was fo great that there mufl; be other extenfive 
 channels for the reception cf the waters which can only be Eaf? ?" 
 
 Had 
 
28 REMARKSoN 
 
 Had Captain Cook been living, what anfwer would he have made 
 to this hold aflcrtion ? or what realbn could he have afligncd, 
 " when there was no impediment of any kind in his way," why 
 he did not pu(h boldly on, and at once make the paffage fo long 
 looked for in vain ? Bufthough that illuftrious navigator is no 
 more, refpeftablc luitho \iy may eafily be found to controvert any 
 • aflertions of this kind. 
 
 Captains Burney and Bligh, of the navy, were both of them 
 with Captain Cook when he difcovered the river juft mentioned. 
 Captain Bligh, at that time mafter of the Refolution, furveyed it, 
 laid down the flioal and the various foundings which I have 
 already noticed ; and, I doubt not, is fully competent to deter- 
 mine, v.-hether in the higheft " known latitude" of Cook's River 
 there are a/i)> Imped'nnaits in the way of navigation. 
 
 For the purpofe of combating vulgar prejudices, and unpopular 
 doiStrines, you " beg leave to introduce the voyage of the 
 Iphigenia* " Why produce that voyage, when you have it in your 
 power to produce a much better ? I mean Captain Duncan's. — 
 
 * Obfcrvations on the Probable Exiftence of a North-weft Paffage, page 45. 
 
 4 A* 
 
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 MEARES's VOYAGES. 29 
 
 As you confefs to have Mr. Arrowlinkh's chart, on which 
 Captaui Duncan's track is laid down, in your poffcinon, it is but 
 too plain that you have been furnilhed from it with the greateft 
 part of the materials to conftrud your own ; yet, in no part of 
 your work do you acknowledge the obligation, except one ; and, 
 ftrange to tell ! in that very place you differ from Mr. Arrow- 
 fmith's chart no lefs than iq'' 45' to the weftward. 
 
 Ti e part where you exercife your talents in fo wonderful a 
 manner, is the fea feen by Mr. Hearne. Go on. Sir ; make one 
 remove more, and you will open a North-weft paffage. 
 
 Speaking ftill of the Iphlgenia, you obferve, « This fhip en- 
 ters fo far to the Eaft, that (he paffes, by three degrees, the weft- 
 ern boundary of Mr. Hearne's fea in 72°, (but placed by Mr. 
 Arrowfmith, in his chart lately publifhed from Mr. Turner's 
 charts and journals, in the latitude of 68° 15' North, and longi- 
 tude of 228» Eaft of Greenwich) when a clear and extenfive 
 paffage is feen without impediments." 
 
 Well might the fhip be to the Eaftward of that place ; for, as I 
 obferved before, (wheri fpeaking of your own chart), that part 
 
 rr placed 
 
.,o R E M A R K S o N 
 
 placed by Mr. Arrowfmith in longitude 247° 45' Eaft, you have 
 removed to 228° Eaft,- which is only 19° 45' to the wcftward of 
 him ; but, not contented with that, you have laid down the 
 land 1° 30' to the eaftward at Princefs Royal Ifland, Nepean's 
 Sound, Banks's Illand, and in general, all that fide of the chaxi- 
 nel. 
 
 On what authority you have deviated in your chart from Cap- 
 tain Duncan (as laid down by Mr. Arrowfmith) I know not, 
 there being no reafon whatever affigned for it in your publication; 
 neither can I by any means learn why we are favoured with 
 Capes Mendocino and Mendocino^ in your very corrcEl delineation 
 of the American coaft ; as the moft correa chart extant, fo far as 
 relates to that part of the coaft, has only one Cape Mendocino ; 
 the other is called Cape Blanco^ which cape you have been pleaCed 
 to remove 1° 39' to the Northward of its real fituation.— -By the 
 fame happy method (difcovered 1 believe only by you) of re- 
 moving land at pleafure, you have placed Port Sir Francis Drake 
 in latitude 49° North, but which I prefume can only be found 
 in 47° 30' nearly. 
 
 In your inftrudions to Captain Douglas, (Appendix No. j.) 
 are tbefe words: « I recommend you to make the coaft to the 
 
 ^ South- 
 
MEARES*3 VOYAGES. ^t 
 
 Southward : and as you have the credit of difcovering the great 
 ifland, the North-weft fide of which, comprehending near four 
 degrees of latitude, is entirely undifcovered ; I therefore recom- 
 mend your making Cape Saint James, the Southern extremity of 
 the great ifland, as the firft point on the Continent of America. 
 As you fteer along the North-weft fide of the great ifland, you 
 will explore it minutely, to the height of 54° North ; where re- 
 fides a chief, whofe diftrid is large, and where Captain Dixon 
 procured in a few hours, two hundred cloaks, or fix hundred 
 Ikins." 
 
 In the paflage now quoted, and other parts of the fame Inftruc- 
 tions to Captain Douglas, concerning this great tjlandy as you are 
 pleafed to call it, and to whom you give the honour of the dli- 
 covery, you frequently make ufe of the name " Cape Saint 
 yames." Pray how did the Cape obtain that name ? And how 
 came you to be informed that I had vifited this great Ifland at 
 or near the latitude 54° North, and where I purchafed fuch a 
 number of fltins ? Why not fay at once to your aflx)ciate, " I 
 was favoured by Mr. Cox with an account of this place, together 
 with a copy of a chart which Captain Dixon gave him in China?" 
 
 This 
 
REMARKS CK 
 
 This would have been telling the plain truth at once: but this I 
 prcfumc did not fuit your purpofe ; palpable faKhoods, or ftudied 
 mifreprefentations, feem to be the moft ftriking traits of your 
 very extraordinary performance. 
 
 A little further on in the Hime inftrudions, you %, " Let 
 your orders to Mr. Tunter be clear and explicit. When you fe- 
 parate at Cape Saint James, he will proceed into the great chan- 
 nel, and fteer up the North-eaft fide of the great illand, as high 
 as 54° 30' North, and be employed alternately between the iOand 
 and the main land of America; a plan of which is now in your 
 pofTeffion, as well as information of the various chiefs, and their 
 places of refidence :— the paper of intelligence refpcding this, 
 which I fortunately procured, accompanies thefe inftruaions." 
 
 You will pleafe to recolka:, Sir, that you have told us, in the 
 inftruaions juft quoted, that you received fome information from 
 the Princefs Royal ; and, in another place you mention " Port 
 Royal :" So that it is no difficult matter to unveil yonr fecret, and 
 learn from whence you obtained your plan and information re- 
 fpeaing the North-weft fide of the great ijland, and the oppofite 
 
 fide of the channel. 
 
 I have 
 
M E A R E S ' 6 VOYAGES. 33 
 
 I have already mentioned Captain Barclay's chart, and fliall 
 now give the pofition (;f different places on the North-weft coall, 
 as I have taken them from the Memoire of a Map publilhcd by 
 Mr. Dalrymple in 1789; Captain Barclay's chart, given me by 
 John Henry Cox, Efq. not being at this time in my poffeffion. 
 
 The pofitions from Captain Barclay's chart jufi mentioned 
 are: 
 
 Lat. 1 
 
 ^orth 
 
 Long. Vi 
 
 rt[lof( 
 
 jrreenwich. • 
 
 
 
 47 
 
 t 
 
 9 
 
 
 125 
 
 23 
 
 Point Fear 
 
 47 
 
 43 
 
 125 
 
 I 
 
 Deftrudion River 
 
 47 
 
 47 
 
 125 
 
 H 
 
 Pinnacle 
 
 48 
 
 8 
 
 125 
 
 31 
 
 Cape Flattery 
 
 48 
 
 24 
 
 125 
 
 47 
 
 Center of Tallock Ifland 
 
 48 
 
 26 
 
 125 
 
 44 
 
 South point of De Fear's entrance. 
 
 48 
 
 33 
 
 125 
 
 48 
 
 North point ditto 
 
 48 
 
 50 
 
 126 
 
 00 
 
 South point Barclay's Sound 
 
 49 
 
 00 
 
 126 
 
 17 
 
 Weft point ditto 
 
 
 
 12; 
 
 
 
 Weft point Nootka 
 
 Ml 
 
 Whether 
 
2^ REMARKSoN 
 
 Whether or not this chart has been of fcrvice to you, the mod 
 fuperficial reader of your voyage xviU be able to difcover: but; 
 your gratitude feems to keep pace with your other intelledual 
 endowments, as I do not find in the whole courfc of your work, 
 the fmalleft acknowledgement made for the many advantagca 
 you derived from it. 
 
 The fame may be faid refpedling the ufe you have made of 
 Captain Duncan's chart, different pofitions from which I would 
 have given, but at prefent it is not in my poffcflion. 
 
 I now come to take fome notice of the agreement of your own 
 charts one with another, and here I confefs myfelf entirely at a 
 lofs in regard to the interior part of America j for they differ 
 from each other fo very materially in this particular, that I can- 
 not find any other method of reconciling them, than by fuppofing 
 that parts of them are taken from different authorities, and the 
 remainder probably laid down from your own furvey when on 
 the lakes of Canada ; as, from the following paffage in your 
 Voyages to the North-weft coaft of America, page 222, I find 
 you were ftationed there in the early part of your life : " And 
 here, I truft, it will not be confidered as an impertinent digreffion, 
 
 if 
 4 
 
MEARES's VOYAGES 35 
 
 if I exprefs my gratitude to that example of profelljonal rigor and 
 perfeverance, which in my early years were fet before me, on the 
 oppofite fide of this continent ; where ability and courage alleviated, 
 in fomc meafure, the chagrin of unfuccefsful war. The cam- 
 paigns in Canada owe their only honour to the naval warfare on 
 the lakes of that country ; and it was my good fortune when a« 
 youth, to be inured in fuch a fchool to the hardfhips and' 
 difficulties of naval life, and to learn there, that temper and per- 
 feverance muft be added to profeffional knowledge. In order to 
 furmount them. I am ready to acknowledge, that for the little fkill 
 I may poffefs as a profeffional man, as well as the patience I have 
 exercifed, and the perfeverance I have exerted in this or any 
 other voyage, I am indebted to the rigid difcipline which necef- 
 farily arofe from the continual adion, haz-.rd, and conflidl of the 
 fervice in which I was firft engaged." 
 
 ' If you mean to ffiew the world the charts now in qucftion for 
 examples of your Ikill as a profeffional man, they, I am afraid, 
 will give the nautical part of it, but an indifferent opinion of 
 your abilities in that line of life which you were brought up in, 
 and which you now profefs ; however, be all this as it may, it 
 
 never 
 
y' 
 
 REMARKS ON 
 
 never ^vas my intention to find fault with, or cavil at you on 
 that account ; I'l^w men arrive at pcrfcdion /// nuy iificof/ijc, and 
 tlie greater part of mankind fcldom advance beyond mediocrity ; 
 vet ihoMi;;h \vc frequently lind real merit and unafTedcd modefly 
 joined together, we much oftcner meet with two very oppofitc 
 qualifications (if the old proverb is to be believed) " joined 
 hand in hand." 
 
 Whatever may be your abilities, it was furely in your power, 
 (wherever you have found your own inexperience aided by the 
 information of others, to acknowledge from what fource you de- 
 rived your information ; or, if they fortunately fucceeded in 
 making any interefling difcoveries, or throwing new lights on the 
 branch of commerce in which you were engaged, you furely 
 might have let them enjoyed their hard earned portion of merit 
 in quiet, and not have endeavoured, by detrading from others, to 
 add to your own. But, no, this you could not poflibly do ; and 
 therefore a fpirit of envious detraction, and faftidious mifreprefen- 
 tation, is met with almoft in every page of your work. 1 could 
 not therefore fuffer it to be ufhered into the world unnoticed. 
 
 I am 
 
MEARES's VOYAGES. 37 
 
 I am aware that my obrcrvation8 on the different paflagcs in 
 your book do not proceed in a regular line ; but [ made them as 
 they occurred to me, or rather, I have feleded as many of them 
 as I have had leifurc to do, for all your inconfiftcnccs would 
 (as I have already obl'erved) fill a quarto volume. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Yours, &c. 8ic, 
 
 GEORGE DIXON. 
 
 James Street, Covent Garden ; 
 December i, 1790. 
 
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