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pended to the original edition of Cook's Voyages, ex. gr. of the first and second 

 expeditions of that circumnavigator of imperishable renown (Voyage to the 

 South Pole and round the World, Lond. 1777, p. 1), as well as of the third and 

 last (Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, published by the Admiralty, Lond. 1784, in 

 2nd ed. 1785), and even in the account of the three expeditions collectively 

 (A General Chart, exhibiting the Discoveries of Capt. Cook, in this third and 

 two preceding voyages, by Lieut. Henry Eoberts), the island of St. Paul is 

 .correctly given as the southern one : nevertheless, in the text of D'Entrecas- 

 teaux'a Voyage (t. i. p. 44), the complaint is made (whether justly appears to 

 me more than doubtful after much examination of editions in the libraries of 

 Paris, Berlin, and Gottingen) that " in the special Chart of Cook's last Expe- 

 dition Amsterdam Island is placed to the south of St Paul's." Such an inversion 

 of the names, as intended to be given by the original discoverer Willem de Vla- 

 ming, is frequently found in maps of the first third cf the present century ; for 

 example, in the older meritorious Maps of the World of Arrowsmith and Purdy, 

 1833. This has probably been occasioned rather by : 1. Fault in the Maps of 

 Cox and Mortimer. 2. The circumstance that in the Atlas to Lord Macartney's 

 Voyage to China the smoking volcanic island (of which there is a fine view) is 

 indeed called St. Paul's, and placed in 38 42' S., but unfortunately it is sub- 

 joined, " commonly called Amsterdam ; " and, what is still worse, in the Narra- 

 tive of the Voyage, Staunton and Dr. Gillan constantly use the name of Am- 

 sterdam for the " island still in a state of inflammation ; " and, after having 

 given the true latitude in p. 219, even add (p. 226) " that St. Paul is lying to 

 the northward of Amsterdam." 3. The same confusion as to the names by 

 Barrow, who in his " Voyage to Cochinchina in the years 1792 and 1793," 

 p. 140 157, also calls the more southern island, "which gives out smoke and 

 flames," Amsterdam. Malte-Brun (Pre'cis de la Ge'ographie Universelle, t. v. 

 1817, p. 146) justly blames Barrow on this account, but he is wrong in also 

 blaming De Rossel and Beautemps-Beaupre'. Both the latter assign to the 

 island of Amsterdam, which is the only one of which they give views, the lati- 

 tude of 37 47'; and to the island of St. Paul, as being 50' more to the southy 

 38 38' (Voy. de D'Entrecasteaux, 1808, t. i. p. 4046) ; and, to prove that 

 the drawing in his book represents the true Amsterdam Island of Willem de 

 Vlaming, Beautemps-Beaupre' gives in his Atlas a copy of the forest-covered 

 view of Amsterdam from Valentyn. From the circumstance of the celebrated 

 navigator Abel Tasman having, in 1 642, with Middelburg called the Island of 

 Tonga-tabu in the Tonga group, in lat, 21|, Amsterdam (Burney, Chronolo- 

 gical History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean, 

 Pt. III. p. 81 and 437), Tasman has been erroneously cited as the discoverer of 



