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I have not the leaft doubt, that Prince William's Iflands, 

 difcovered, and fo named by Tafman, are included in the 

 foregoing lift. For while we lay at Hapaee, one of the na- 

 tives told me, that, three or four days fail from thence, 

 to the North Weft, there was a clufter of fmall iflands, con- 

 fifting of upward of forty. This fituation correfponds very 

 well with that affigned, in the accounts we have of Taf- 

 man's voyage, to his Prince William's Iflands *. 



* Tafman faw eighteen or twenty of thefe fmall iflands, every one of which was 



furrounded with fands, ftioals, and rocks. They are alfo called, in fome charts, 



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