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A VOYAGE TO 



'779- rate the two iilands, and are called after his name; and- 

 made a complete furvcy of both. He afterward explored 

 the Eaftern coaft of New Holland, hitherto unknown ; an 

 extent of twenty-feven degrees of latitude, or upward of 

 two thoufand miles.. 



In his fecond expedition, he refolvcd the great problem of 

 a Southern continent ; having traveried that hemifphere be- 

 tween the latitudes of 40 and 70 , in fuch a manner, as 

 not to leave a poflibility of its exifcencc, unlefs near the pole, 

 and out of the reach of navigation. During this voyage, 

 he difcovered New Caledonia, the largeft ifland in the South- 

 ern Pacific, except New Zealand; the ifland of Georgia; 

 and an unknown coaft, which he named Sandwich Land, 

 the thule of the Southern hemifphere ; and having twice, 

 vifited the tropical feas, he fettled the fituations of the old,, 

 and made fcveral new difcoveries. 



But the voyage we are now relating, is diftinguifhed, 

 above all the reft, by the extent and importance of its dif- 

 coveries. Bcfides feveral fmaller iflands in the Southern 

 Pacific, he difcovered, to the North of the equinoctial ] : nc, 

 the group called the Sandwich Ulands ; which, from their 

 fituation and productions, bid fairer for becoming an object: 

 of confcqucnce, in the iyflem of European navigation, than 

 any other difcovery in the South Sea. He afterward ex- 

 plored what had hitherto remained unknown of the Weftcrn 

 coaft of America, from the latitude of 43 to 70° North, con- 

 taining an extent of three thoufand five hundred miles ; 

 afcertaincd the proximity of the two great continents of 

 Ana and America ; paffed the ftraits between them, and fur- 

 veyed the coaft, on each fide, to fuch a height of Northern 

 latitude, as to demonftrate the impracticability of a paffage^ 

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