CHAPTER XX 



THE PLANS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 



AUTHORITIES : 



JEAN PIERRE PURRY'S Memoire sur le pais des Capes, et la terre 

 de Nuyts. 



PURRY'S Second Memoire. 



HARRIS'S Voyages, ed. CAMPBELL, 1744-1748. 



CHARLES DE BROSSES'S Histoire des Navigations aux Terres 

 A us tr ales. 



CALLENDER'S Terra Australis Cognita. 



DALRYMPLE'S Discoveries made in the South Pacific Ocean 

 previous to 1764. 



DALRYMPLE'S Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and 

 Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean. 



YET, half a century passed before another Englishman The neglect 



landed in New Holland. Dampier's books were good Holland 



reading, but his argument was not strong enough to induce 



men to put their hands into their pockets. The power of 



pure science was still too slight to launch ships on voyages 



of curiosity. The main chance was the appeal to men 



of commerce, who were powerful enough to do almost 



anything they liked. But the men of commerce thought 



there were more important things to attend to. As for 



New Holland, the Dutch had known thousands of miles 



of it for a century, and had not thought it worth while 



to found a single factory. What the Dutch could not 



turn to profit must be pretty bad, and Dampier himself 



had proved that it was very bad indeed. New Britain, 



it was true, seemed to be in a fertile place. But New 



Britain was a long way off. Its exploitation would be 



expensive, and money could be better spent in nearer 



places. 



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