Excerpt from The Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World, Vol. 1 of 7: Printed Verbatim From the Original Editions, and Embellished With a Selection of the Engravings
With Lieutenant Cook, in this voyage, embarked Joseph Banks, Esq. a gentleman possessed of considerable landed property in Lincolnshire. He received the education of a scholar rather to qualify him for the enjoyments than the labours of life; yet an ardent desire to know more of nature than could be learnt from books, determined him at a very early age, to forego what are generally thought to be the principal advantages of a liberal fortune, and to apply his revenue not in procuring the pleasures of leisure and ease, but in the pursuit of his favourite study, through a series of fatigue and danger, which, in such circumstances, have very seldom been voluntarily incurred, except to gratify the restless and insatiable desires of avarice or ambition.
Upon his leaving the university of Oxford, in the year 1763, he crossed the Atlantic, and visited the coasts of Newfoundland and Labradore.
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