Tables of the route of the Resolution and the Adventure, the variation of the compass and meteorological observations during the voyage. A Vocabulary of the Language of the Society Isles. A table, exhibiting at one view, specimens of different languages spoken in the South Sea, from Easter Island, westward to New Caledonia, as observed in the voyage. Letter from John Ibbetson Esq., secretary to the Commissioners of Longitude, to Sir John Pringle, Baronet, P.R.S. A discourse upon some late improv

As all nations who are acquainted with the method of communicating their ideas by characters, (which represent the sound that conveys the idea,) have some particular method of managing, or pronouncing, the sounds represented by such characters, this forms a very essential article in the constitution of the language of any particular nation, and must, therefore, be understood before we can make any progress in learning, or be able to converse in it. But as this is very complex and tedious to a be

   English. Otaheite. Easter Island.       The Marquesas Isles. The Island of Amsterdam. New Zealand.    Malicolo. Tanna. New Caledonia    A Bird, 'Man_oo_,[22] 'Man_oo_,                                                   'Manu_oo_,                  Man_oo_, Manee, s. Man_eek_.    A Bow E'fanna,                                                   'Fanna,    Nabrr_oo_s, Na'fanga.    Bread-fruit _Oo_r_oo_,        Mai_ee_,    Ba'rabe, Tag'_oo_r_oo_.    A canoe E'väa 'Wagga,        Ev'äa, Ta'wagga,    

DELIVERED AT THE Anniversary Meeting of the ROYAL SOCIETY, November 30, 1776. By Sir JOHN PRINGLE, Baronet, PRESIDENT,...

Before we proceed further in the business of this day, permit me to acquaint you with the judgment of your Council, in the disposal of Sir Godfrey Copley's medal; an office I have undertaken at their request, and with the greater satisfaction, as I am confident you will be no less unanimous in giving your approbation, than they have been in addressing you for it upon this occasion. For though they were not insensible of the just title that several of the Papers, composing the present volume of y