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2fi4-°, south, and coasted along it to latitude 23®. Edel, another : 

 Dutch Captain, fell in with that part of the coast which bears his i 

 name, in 1619. It was seen by the ship Leeuwin in 1622, and \ 

 by the ship Vianen in 162S. ]n 1629, the Batavia, commanded ' 

 by Francisco Pelsert, was wrecked on the coast of New Holland, i 

 on the rocks called Abrolhos. Captain Pelsert coasted along the j 

 shore a considerable way in a boat, and then sailing to Batavia, j 

 returned in another vessel, to take olF the people left upon the j 

 Abrolhos rocks. Tasman is supposed to have examined part of the | 

 north-west coast of New Holland in 1644. The buccaneers, j 

 with whom Dampier made a voyage round the world in 1688, ; 

 came upon the north-west coast of Terra Australis, for the purpose j 

 of careening their vessel and procuring refreshments. They made j 

 the land about latitude 16° 50', due south from a shoal whose i 

 longitude is now known to be 122|°, east. From this place they ; 

 ran along the shore N . E. by E. twelve leagues, till they came to a 

 convenient place for their purpose. Dampier gives a particular j 

 description of the country and inhabitants. Vlaming, another i 

 Dutch Captain, surveyed a considerable portion of the west coast ; 

 in 1696, being ordered to look out for the crew of a vessel which | 

 had been lost the year before, and which it was supposed might i 

 have been wrecked on that coast, and the crew saved. In 1699, i 

 Dampier visited the west coast of New Holland a second time, i 

 having been sent out in purpose on a voyage of discovery in his ; 

 majesty's ship Roebuck. These are all the navigators that pre- : 

 ceded Captain Flinders on the west coast. 



The south coast of New Holland was discovered by Pieter Nuyts, i 

 a Dutchman, in 1627? and the coast was accurately laid down by 

 him, from Cape Leeuwin to about east longitude 132°. The next ' 

 person who visited it was Captain Vancouver, in 1791. He made ' 

 the coast at Cape Chatham, in latitude 35° 3' south, and longitude j 

 116° 35' east. He sailed along the coast east, and anchored in a i 

 sound to which he gave the name of King George the Third. ' 

 Thence he sailed east as far as Termination Island, in east longi- | 

 tude 122° 8'. The French Admiral, D'Entrecasteaux, who was j 

 sent out in search of La Peyrouse, visited the south coast of New j 

 Holland in 1792 ; but did not proceed further east than Nuyts had 

 fJone. His charts, as far as he went, are accurate and satisfactory. ^ 

 Thus 250 leagues of the south coast remained entirely unexplored j 

 when Captain Flinders commenced his voyage. ; 



Van Dieman's Laud was discovered by Tasman, in 1642, who 

 •was sent out bv the Dutch expressly to determine how far south the i 

 continent of New Holland extends. Captain Cook sailed along ' 

 the east coast of that continent in 1770, and ascertained the gene- 

 ral outline of the coast. Morion, a French naval officer, visited 

 Van Dieman's Land in 177-% Captain Furncaux in 1773, Captain j 

 Cook in 1777, and D'Entrecasteaux in 1793; but none of these ; 

 navigators had been able to decide whether Van Dieman's Land j 

 was an island or part of the continent. After the British colony j 



