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ones, does not agree. If we are not mistaken in 

 our supposition, the island-chain runs from Ulea 

 to Setoan (the group of thirteen islands, and 

 Tucker's Island), under the seventh degree of 

 north latitude, from west to east, the direction 

 which it takes on Cantova's chart, and not from 

 W.N.W. to E.S.E. as Don Luis de Torres draws it. 

 This chain occupies, besides, about three degrees 

 of longitude, instead of extending above five. 



The relative situation of the islands may be more 

 easily obtained from the accounts of the natives, 

 than their distances. The points of the compass 

 may be pointed out with precision ; the distances, 

 according to the time required for the voyage, and 

 even here, all measure of time is wanting. Canto va 

 appears, in drawing his chart, to have commenced 

 like Don Luis de Torres, from Ulea, which he 

 properly marks to the south of Guahon. Both of 

 them had fixed points for the western part, between 

 which it only remained to place the other islands. 

 This was not the case for the eastern part, where 

 they had unlimited space open to them. We can 

 only wonder at the accidental agreement of the 

 standard which they have applied. If now we 

 have a right to apply the reduced scale, which 

 Wilson's discoveries furnish, to the province of 

 Cittac, we must look for it between 148" and 

 152° east longitude of Greenwich, and 51° and 8i° 

 north latitude. And we find, in fact, that several 



