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found feveral fmall ifles and a larp-e 



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from Wefl to Eafb, or nearly fo : thefe ifles, and thofe feen by Mr. 

 de KirgLielen, are expreiTed in a chart publifhed under the patron- 



age of the Due de Croy, by Robert de Vaugondy. Though we 



, had not the p:ood luck to fall in with them, v/e have, however, no 



reafons to difbelieve their exiftence 5 and probably their fituation 



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will be afcertained by that able and indefatigable navigator, Capt. 

 Cook, in the expedition in which he at. prefent is employed. 

 Thefe ifles feem to be a feries or chain of fubmarine mountains, 



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running nearly from Weil: to Eafl:. The lands, vifited by us and 

 others, in the Southern parts of the Atlantic ocean, are Sandwich 

 Land, South-Georgia, Falkland Iflands, and Staten Land, together 



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with the broken lands belonging to Tierra del Fuego, and thefe 

 form another chain of fubmarine mountains, lying almofl; in the 

 fame diredion Vvdth the former. The low ifles to the Eafl: of O- 

 Taheitee, with the Society Ifles, the Friendly Ifles, the New-He- 

 brides, and New- Caledonia, together with the intermediate ifles of ^ 

 Scilly, Howe, Pallifer, Palnierfl:one., Sav^e, and Turtle-Ifland, 



as well as the ifles of Hope and Cocos, Capt. Carteret's Queen 

 Charlotte's-Ifles, and feveral more^ as far as New-Hibernia, New- 

 Britain, and New-Guinea, are one great chain of fubmarine moun- 

 tains; extending through an immenfe fpace, or three-fourths of 





the whole South- Sea^ 



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