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were drawn in several maps, and became geographical 

 commonplaces. In 1701 Dampier, sailing the North- West 

 coast of Australia in the Roebuck, had " Mr. Tasman's 

 draught on board," and thought " he came not so near 

 the shore as his line shows." In 1674 an abstract of 

 the Journal of 1642 was published, and in 1726 Valentijn 

 published the abstract which was so carefully studied 

 by Cook and Banks, as they solved the problem that had 

 baffled Tasman in New Zealand, and set forth Westward 

 on a voyage which sought to hit the Northern limit of 

 Tasman's discoveries in Van Diemen's Land. 



