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complaisant to the Spaniard or to fear him. Nor need 

 British maritime power dread the wrath of the Dutch. 

 The British should adopt Roggeveen's excellent plan 

 for settlement at Belgia Australis (the Falkland Islands), 

 and at Juan Fernandez. " By the help of those two 

 colonies undoubtedly the Southern Indies had been by 

 this time effectively discovered." Whatever nation shall 

 revive and prosecute the plan will become in a few years 



PART OF MAP IN HARRIS'S Voyages. (Ed. Campbell, 1744.) 



" master of as rich and profitable a commerce as the 

 Spaniards have to Mexico and Peru, or the Portuguese 

 to Brazil." The Englishman had dreamed the dream of 

 Quiros with a difference. 



The search for Terra Australis Incognita must, no doubt, The interest 

 be " left to the industry of future ages." For practical Holland, 

 men of business the interesting continent was Terra 

 Australis Cognita : " the great Southern Continent which 

 Tasman surrounded, and the bounds of which are tolerably 

 well known " ; tolerably well known, at least, to the 

 Dutch, though to other nations New Holland was still 

 a " chimera." The Dutch had discovered the continent, 

 but they had made no use of it, and never would make 



