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One hundred expeditions of circumnavigation like those of Cook and La Prouse would not burden the exchequer of the nation fitting them out so much as the ways and means of defraying a single campaign in war.
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He compares the costs of exploration to military campaigns, arguing that exploration is less burdensome financially.
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