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been made to him. In default of any such reference, we may 
suppose that his name had become associated with the coast 
between the Lands of the Hendracht and of the Leeuwin in 
consequence of an earlier voyage to those parts, and that the 
designation, ‘D’Edel’s Land,’ was extended to fresh dis- 
coveries in the same region out of compliment to him as its 
first visitor. 
De Witt’s Land.—Reverting to the text of the Instructions, 
we find the following account of the discovery of De Witt’s 
Land. 
“Tn’t volgende jaer 1628, *t selve lant aen de noort- 
cant by ’t schip Dianx (varende uyt Indiae na Nederland) op 
de zuyderbreete van 21 graden onverwacht ontdect, en 
omtrent 50 mylen custs beseylt is.’ 
“Tn the following year, 1628, the same land was unexpectedly 
discovered on the north side in lat. 21° S. by the ship 
Diana (bound from the Indies to Holland), which vessel 
sailed along the coast for about 200 miles.” 
The rame G.F. de Witte-lant is borne by this coast, and 
the discovery seems to have comprized about one hundred 
miles on either side of the present N. W. Cape of Australia. 
Strangely enough, the Instructions as edited by Dalrymple 
(Collection of Memoirs concerning the Land of Papua) give the 
name of the discovery-ship as the Vianen. In default of a 
reference to the original MSS, we can only set the one 
authority against the other. The probability however is in 
favour of the goddess, whose name is naturalised in Dutch, 
while the word “Vianen” belongs neither to that, nor, so far 
as I know, to any other language. 
Carpentaria.—The publication of Tasman’s map confirms 
the opinion that the Gulf of Carpentaria was first coasted 
in its entirety by Tasman in his second voyage. His track, 
anchorages, and scundings are marked with great minutexess. 
The name “Carpentaria,” however, does not appear, and 
we may conclude that it was one of those latinised names 
introduced for the first time in the original of the map 
published by Thévenot, where it appears on the land east of 
the gulf. Vide Majors Early Voyages to Terra Australis. 
pp. xcix.-cil. It is interesting to note that Carpenter’s name 
is appropriated to a river on the east side of the gulf in about 
lat. 13° 8S. by the draughtsman of Tasman’s map,—probably 
a survival from one of the early expeditions for the explora- 
tion of what was then regarded by the Dutch as the west 
coast of New Guinea. 
I cannot conclude these fragmentary notes without ac- 
knowledging my indebtedness to Mr. Justin Browne and Mr. 
J. B. Walker for their kind loan of books during their prepa- 
ration. But I would insist on the fact that private collections 
