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F we examine the liles, vlfited by us in the diiferent feas, which 



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gated, it will appear, that they all 



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dered as a range of fubmarine mountains : for, if the bottom of the 

 fea is to be looked upon as land, thefe illes certainly are elevations 

 or rifmg grounds ; and therefore, as they are To near one another, 

 and lying in the fame diredion, they can be nothing but chains of 



I will at prefent, therefore, only give an idea of the 



•s of thefe fubmarine elevations,, which fall under the 



mountams 



various 



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above defcription. 



Whenwe were at the Cape of Good Hope, in November, 1772 



Informed, that the French had difcovered fome land 



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Southern Indian ocean, about the meridian of Mauritius, and the 

 latitude of 48" South. After having gone beyond the antardic cir- 

 cle, we hauled up towards the above fituatlon, and found no land; 



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but, from all concurring 



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Ircumflances, it was highly probable. 



that we had been at no great dlilance from 



At our return to the 



Cape in March, ' 1775^ we found there Capt. Crozet, who had made 

 a voyage on difcovery with the unfortunate Capt. Marion, and had 



found 



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