more, and in a more systematic manner, than all the other Powers of Christendom put together. She has surveyed, by the most able operators, furnished with the best in struments and instructions which England and France could produce, the whole sea coast of those vast regions ; and the results she has, with a manly liberality without ' example, laid before the public. The great Coasting Pilot of Spain (including Portugal) was published by the authority of the Government in 178T, accompanied by a set of charts, illustrated by plans of all the principal harbours and naval stations, in the fullest detail; accom panied by views of the coast, the whole executed in a style far superior to any work of the kind which France or England yet possesses ; except, perhaps, the Atlantic Neptune of Governor De Barres. This Coasting Pilot, forming a good quarto volume, I translated several years ago for Mr. Faden ; and it now forms one of the standard treatises attached to every vessel belonging to the na tional navy. Since then I have translated from the Spanish “ An Account of a Voyage from Cadiz to the Strait of Ma gellan.” This voyage, performed under the command of Admiral Don Antonio de Cordova, in a frigate, was projected with the humane view of setting at rest for ever the long-agitated question, whether mariners ought or ought not, on any account, to attempt a passage to the Pacific Ocean through that Strait. The translation was first suggested to me by the late