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LANDS'.' and called America. The third large mafs of land lies in the South 



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Eaft part of our hemifi^here, and its Eaflern limits have been biit 

 lately aicertained by that indefatigable and intelligent navigator,. 

 Capt. Cooky in the year 1770. Its Weflern and Northern limits 

 were firfl difcovered in 1 6 1 6 and the following years, by the Dutch 

 navigators, when a noble fpirit of difcovery flill animated the go- 

 vernors of their Indian fettlements. Since that time it has been vi- 



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fited, and feverally feen, by Dutch and Engliih navigators, and the 

 whole was called in. 1644 Neiv -Holland, from its firfl difcoverers. 



many will diffent from 



and refufe to call it 2i. Continent 



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though it be little, if at all, inferior to Europe,, to which no one 



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has hitherto heiitated to give that name. It muft be allowed, that 

 New-Holland is at prefent the moll backward of all. the lands tailed 



Continents 



point of populat 



and 



to Europ 



but 



this obje6lion is of little weight, fmce it may perhaps, in future 



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;, become as populous as any of the other continents, and- 



age 



equally ufeful ;: as I believe it to be very likely to fupply the wants 



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of European colonies. . 



We know this land but imperfectly, and all our navigators feem: 



but 



efpecially 



to complain that it is deficient in frefh water and large 



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had they properly and carefully examined its circuit, 

 South-Wellern ihores, their enquiries would perhaps have been re- 



warded with fuccefs ; for it is highly probable, that a land of fo 



. great 



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