remains in the list of Lieutenants, in 1787. To him the honour of the voyage to Merida undoubtedly belongs, and not to our great navigator, who was then busily employed on the coast of Newfoundland. The glories of the latter are so abundant, that there is no occasion to swell the amount by robbing another.
In the year 1765, Mr. Cook's mother died, at the age of 63. The family tomb-stone in Ayton churchyard, which records her death, and that of two sons and three daughters, most of whom died in infancy, is understood to have been carved and lettered by her husband; who, about 10 years after, removed from Ayton to Redcar, to spend the evening of his days with his daughter Margaret, the wife of Mr. James Fleck, a respectable fisherman and shopkeeper, who is still alive.
