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names themfelves are fpelt as I found them either in one of the 

 catalogues, or the charts, or in my own regifler of obfervations, 

 a preference being given to the beft authority, and to the analogy 

 of the language fpoken in thefe ifles. The chart includes about 

 20 degrees of longitude on either fide of the meridian of 1 50 degrees 



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of South latitude from about 7 degrees to 27 degrees ; the parallel 

 of 17 degrees running in the middle. It cannot be expected that 

 this chart (hould be of fuch accuracy as to enable future navigators 



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to make ufe of it : it is chiefly intended to give fome idea of the 

 geography of the inhabitants of the ifles in the South Sea, and it 

 will like wife ferve to make every navigator cautious when he arrives 

 at that part of the ocean comprehended in this chart ; and probably 

 may be the means of afcertaining the fituation of thefe numerous 



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and partly undifcovered ifles, 



I. O-T A H E I T E E, called by Capt. Wallis King George s I/Ian J, 



and by Mr. de Bougainville Tal'fL Tupaya mentioned that 

 in the life time of his great grandfather (MeJoaa no the Too- 

 hoona) a hoftile fliip (Pahee-tha) had been there. And it is 

 very probable, that Pedro Fernandez de Quiros was in 



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the year 1606^ its firfl difcoverer, who called it Sagittaria^ 



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according to the ingenious conjedlure of Mr. Dalrymple 

 in his letter to Dr. Haivkefworthy p. 17, and though 



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