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'776; Thefe t\Vo iflands, as alfo four others which lie from nine 



to twelve degrees of longitude more to the Eaft, and nearly 



in the fame latitude, vv'ere difcovered, as I have mentioned in 



my late Voyage *, by Captains Marion du Frefne, and Crozer, 



French Navigators, in January 1772, on their paflTage in two 



iliips from the Cape of Good Hope to the Philippine Iflands. 



As they have no names in the French chart of the Southern 



hemifphere, which Captain Crozet communicated to me in 



1775 -f, I (hall diftinguifh the two we now fuw, by calling 



them Prince Edv/ard's Iflands, after his Majefly's fourth 



fon ; and the other four, by the name of Marion's and 



Crozet''s Iflands, to commemorate their difcoverers. 



We had now, for the moil part, ftrong gales between 

 the North and Well, and but very indifferent weather; not 

 better, indeed, than we generally have in England in the 

 very depth of Winter, though it was now the middle of 

 Summer in this hemifphere. Not difcouraged, however, 

 by this, after leaving Prince Edward's Iflands, I fliaped our 

 courfe to pafs to the Southward of the others, that I might 

 get into the latitude of the land difcovered by Monfieur dc 

 Kerguelen. 



I had applied to the Chevalier de Borda, whom, as I have 

 mentioned, I found at Teneriffc, requcfling, that if he knew 

 any thing of the ifland difcovered by Monfieur de Kergue- 

 len, between the Cape of Good Hope and New Holland, he 



* Captain Cook's Voyage, Vol. ii. p. 266. Thefe iflands are there faid to be in the 

 latitude of 48" South ; that is, two degrees farther South, than what here appears to 

 be their real pofition. 



f See Cook's Voyage, as above. Dr. Forflcr, in his obj'crvations made durtiig ihat 

 voyage, p. 30, gives us this defcription of the Chart then communicated by iVlonfieiir 

 Crozet : that it was publified under the patronage of the Duke de Crcye, by Robert de 

 Vaugondy. Captain Coolc tells us lQV>'er in this Chapter, that it was publifhed in 



1773- 5 



would 



