List of Maps and Charts in the Text. 



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1. Part of Captain Cook's General Chart 7 



2. The Sandwich Islands. From Marchand's Voyage 12 



3. The La Mesa Group. From Marchand's Voyage 13 



4. Northern Part of the Pacific Ocean. Winds in July and August 23 



5. » » » » » » Ocean Currents in January, February, March 23 



6. Asiae Nova Descriptio by Abraham Ortelius, 1570. North-eastern Part 150 



7. Typus Orbis Teirarum by Abraham Ortelius, 1570 154 



8. Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni Typus by Abraham Ortelius, 1570. South-eastern Part 157 



!). Maris Pacifici (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) novissima Descriptio by Abraham Ortelius, 1589 159 



1U. Orbis Terrarum Typus by Petrus Plancius, 1594. Part of the Eastern Hemisphere 160 



11. Orbis Terrarum Typus by Petrus Plancius, 1594. Part of the Western Hemisphere 161 



12. Part of the so-called Wright-Hakluyt Map. From "The Principal Navigations" by Richard Hakluyt, 



1599 162 



13. Part of a Map of the World by Jodocus Hondius, 1611 165 



14. Map of North America by Abraham Goos, 1624 166 



15. Part of a Map of America by Hessel Gerritsz., 1630 167 



16. Part of a World-Map by Guillaume Delisle, 1700 170 



17. Part of the Northern Hemisphere by Guillaume Delisle, 1714 171 



18. Part of Antonio Herrera's General Chart of the Pacific Ocean, 1601 175 



19. Part of a Manuscript World-Map by William Hacke, representing Ambrose Co\vley's track in 1685 . 179 



20. Part of the Eastern Hemisphere by Guillaume Delisle, 1724 180 



21. Part of the Western Hemisphere by Guillaume Delisle, 1724 181 



22. The Islands of the Far East. From Guillaume Delisle's "Carte d'Asie", 1723 182 



23. The Western Part of the Pacific Ocean by J. N. Delisle and Pli. Buache, 1750 198 



24. Part of a Chart of the Northern Pacific Ocean explored in 1788 and 1789 by John Meares . . . .201 



25. Chart of the Pacific Ocean by J. N. Buache, 1796 206 



26. Part of the Western Hemisphere by J. M. Schmidt, 1784 208 



27. North-eastern Part of the Pacific Ocean by J. M. F. Schmidt, 1820 209 



Plates. 



I. Chart of the South Sea by Antonio Sanches, 1641. Original in the Royal Library at the Hague. 



II. Chart of the North Pacific Ocean by J. B. Nolin fils. With the track of the French Ship the "Saint 

 Antoine" from Peru to China in 1708 and back in 1709. Original in Service Hydrographique at Paris. 



III. The Anson Chart. After a Spanish Original found by George Anson in 1743. 



IV. Chart of the North Pacific Ocean. With the track of the Pilot Francisco Navier Estorbo y Gallegos in 

 1770. Original in Archivo de Indias at Seville. 



V. The La Pérouse Chart. After a Spanish Original presented to J. F. Galaup de La Pérouse in 1786. 



VI. Chart of the North Pacific Ocean probably drawn at Manila about 1716 — 20. Original in the Library of 

 the Royal Academy of Science at Stockholm. 



