8 HISTORY OF 



153 degrees 30 minutes East longitude, ex- 

 tending in all as much, as the whole continent 

 of Europe, the Eastern coast running not less 

 than 2000 miles in length from North-East to 

 South-West. Its dimensions from East to 

 West has not been s<o accurately ascertained. 

 The Dutch navigators who chiefly explored 

 the Island, .called those parts first discovered 

 Eendraght {Concord) Land, which was the 

 name of the ship that first made the land, in 1 61 6, 

 24 degrees and 25 'degrees South. Two years after- 

 wards, Zeacheri discovered another part of the 

 coast, in 15 degrees South, who named it 

 Arnheim Dieman, though this Vas not the 

 same part that received the name of Diemams 

 Land from Tasman, which is the extremity 

 Southward, in latitude 43 degrees. Jan Van 

 Edelsgave in 16 19, has given his own name to 

 a Southern part. Dampier coasted the Western 

 parts in 1687, and again in 1699; from this 

 period it was visited several times, by the 

 Dutch and others, but nothing of any conse^ 

 quence transpired till in 1770, when the cele- 

 brated Captain Cook, explored the country, 

 and called it New South Wales ; however, 

 the shortness of his stay precluded him from 

 making any thing more than general observa- 

 tions, though Sir Joseph Banks, (then Mr. 

 Banks,) discovered such an ample field for 

 botanical research, that one part, in compli* 

 ment to him, was called Botany Bay. — It 

 will not be requisite to relate here, the remarks 

 made by Captain Cook, as we shall incorporate 



