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PiLSTAERT, IN 

 1629. 



Edels-land. 



Vande Leu- 

 wins, IN lb22. 



Peter NuYTS 

 IN 1627. 



Tasman, in 

 1642. 



NEW ri O L L A N D. 



Commodore Francis PilJJaeri, being fent on a voyage of 

 difcovery with eleven fliips, was in 1629 wrecked in the 

 Batavia on this coaft near Edels-lcind, in Lat. 28°. He efcaped; 

 returned in a fkifF to Batavia ; and was obliged to leave 

 feveral of his crew behind. Part had confpired, and cruelly 

 murdered the reft ; but on his coming back to refcue from de- 

 ftruaion thofe whom he had left, he feized on the mifcreants, 

 and gave them into the hands of the executioner. 



Van de Leuwins' Lznd, in Lat. 33° 40', was difcovered in 1622. 

 From hence the fliore runs due eaft for acourfe of fome hundred 

 miles. In 1627 the famous commodore Peter Niiyts failed 

 along the coaft, and made many attempts to land, but was always 

 repulfed. Is not this a proof that the fouthern (bores of Neiv Hol- 

 land pofl*efs a fuperior population, and fuperior valor in the in- 

 habitants, to all the reft of the known parts of this vaft country ? 

 The tradl is to this day called after his name. 



From certain iflands called St. Francis's and St. PetefSy in 

 Lat. 32° fouth, Long. 132° eaft, no farther difcoveries have been 

 made. The land is fuppofed to take a fouthern curvature, and 

 to contrail its breadth gradually. The courfe is marked with the 

 dotted line, nor do we recover land till we reach the very 

 fouthern extremity, which fpreadsto no great breadth; one fide 

 ends in South -wejl Cape, in Lat. 43* 37', the other in South Cape^ 

 in Lat. 43* 42', and the land from each runs northward. 



This part oi Nezv Holland \\2lS difcovered in i6^2,hj JbclTaf- 



man, who was fent for that purpofe by the ftates ; he named it 



Fan Diern£?i's Land, gave names to feveral iflands and bays, 



and made fome remarks on the country ; if he was accurate, 



i!j they 



