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represents Bass's Straits ; that ' Gouffre ' is Oyster Bay in 

 Tasmania ; and that the survey really ceased at the south of 

 that island." Further, that the islands in the extreme east 

 of his extract from the Dauphin map represent New Zealand. 

 — Early Voyages to Terra Australia, Introduction, lviii. 



Mr. Petherick's view is this : — " There is," he says, " at 

 the north a ' grant baye ' in the position of, and shaped like, 

 the Gulf of Carpentaria. The Great Barrier Reef is also 

 marked, and so are the mouths of the rivers on the coast of 

 Queensland; further south, C. dlise, near what is intended 

 for Great Sandy Island ; then the coast-line, which I take to 

 be that of New Zeala-nd (being in the same latitude) trends 

 south-east to a gulf and a ' R. longue,' with numerous islets 

 (the Gulf of Hauraki) ; then eastward to a' C. Fremose,' fair 

 or beautiful cape (the East Cape of New Zealand) ; then 

 south-west." Mel. Rev., ix, 257. Again, after speaking 

 more particularly of the map of Desliens, Mr. Petherick 

 proceeds to say : — " Other MS. maps of the same period or 

 earlier give the coast-line to the southern extremity of the 

 Middle Island (of New Zealand), Cook's Straits being 

 shown as a ' gulf.' " Mel. Bev., viii, 376. 



The difficulty lies in the identification of that portion of 

 the coast-line extending from 'Baye Neufve ' to ' C. do 

 Fremose.' Mr. Major's explanation makes it identical with 

 the North Coast of Tasmania or some part of that coast, Mr. 

 Petherick's with the North Coast of New Zealand from 

 Hauraki Gulf to the East Cape. If we accept Mr. Major's 

 Tendering, the draughtsman has made the north Tasmanian 

 Coast 14deg. long from east to west instead of 3jdeg.; if Mr. 

 Petherick's, he has made the space between Hauraki Gulf 

 and East Cape 14deg. instead of 3deg. 



A reference to other coasts of Jave la Grande, about 

 which there is no dispute, and a deduction therefrom as to 

 the reliance to be placed upon the accuracy of this map in 

 respect of linear measurements 1 will assist us to determine the 

 tenability of these hypotheses. I refer now, not to the geo- 

 graphical position of given points, as fixed by their latitude 

 and longitude, but to the " stretch " east and west, or north 

 and south, of coasts which extend in either of those direc- 

 tions. 



Take, for instance, the west Coast of Jave la Grande from 

 'Baye Bassa,' which will be admitted to correspond roughly 

 in position with our Cape Londonderry, to the southern limit 

 of definite outline, regarded as approximate to our Cape 

 Leeuwin. The actual difference between these points is 

 20|deg.; the Dauphin map makes it 22deg. It is unfortunate 

 that no similar terminal points, admitted by all authorities to 



1 Mr. Major appears not to have observed the scale of latitude on this map. 



