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Lord Falkland ; and the name has since been ex- 

 tended, through inadvertency, to the two islands it 

 separates. 



Having mentioned these islands, I will add, that 

 future navigators will mispend their time, if they 

 look for Pepys's island in 47 South ; it being now 

 certain, that Pepys's island is no other than these 

 islands of Falkland. 



In April, 167<5, Anthony la Roche, an English 

 merchant, in his return from the South Pacific Ocean, 

 where he had been on a trading voyage, being car- 

 ried, by the winds and currents, far to the East of 

 Strait La Maire, fell in with a coast, which may pos- 

 sibly be the same with that which I visited during 

 this voyage, and have called the Island of Georgia. 



Leaving this land, and sailing to the north, La 

 Roche, in the latitude of 45 South, discovered a 

 large island, with a good port, towards the eastern 

 part, where he found wood, water, and fish. 



In 1699, that celebrated astronomer Dr. Edmund 

 Halley was appointed to the command of his Ma- 

 jesty's ship the Paramour Pink, on an expedition for 

 improving the knowledge of the longitude, and of 

 the variation of the compass ; and for discovering 

 the unknown lands supposed to lie in the southern 

 part of the Atlantic Ocean. In this voyage he 

 determined the longitude of several places ; and 

 after his return, constructed his Variation Chart, and 

 proposed a method of observing the longitude at sea, 

 by means of the appulses, and occultations of the 

 fixed stars. But, though he so successfully attended 

 to the two first articles of his instructions, he did 

 not find any unknown southern land. 



The Dutch, in 17^1, fitted out three ships to 

 make discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean, under 

 the command of Admiral Roggewein. He left the 

 Texel on the 21st of August, and arriving in that 

 ocean, by going round Cape Horn, discovered 

 Easter island ; probably seen before, though not 



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