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ice and fnovv A . The firff. of thefe, fituated in fifty-four degrees, 

 is called Georgia Aujlralh ; and the fecond, Sandwich-land, in 

 fifty-nine degrees, which appeared fo large, to fome eyes, that it 

 was conceived to be part of a continent e . 



It is believed alfo, that no fhip hath been beyond forty-eight 

 degrees to the Southward of New Zealand; and from the coldnefs 

 of the moft Southern of thefe large iflands, 1 cannot but fuf- 

 pe<5t that there is a confiderable tract of land between it and 

 the Pole. 



Having thus endeavoured to account how the floating ice 

 which is met with may be fuppofed to be formed from mow 

 or frefh water; I cannot but rtfk another conjecture, that the 

 time of the year at which attempts are commonly made to make 

 difcoveries towards the two poles (though favourable in many 



d Hence whatever land is difcovered to the fouth of this latitude 

 muft produce ice. There is alio a large trad: of land named in fome 

 maps, the Gulph of St. S-ebaftian, which is not far diftant from Georgia 

 Jt/Jiralis, and which poflibly may have efcaped Captain Cook. This 

 great navigator alfo conceives, that the ice floats from 70 degrees South, 

 and is detached by accidents from land lying to the South of that paral- 

 lel, as the currents in the Antarctic Seas always fet to the North. Cook's 

 Voyage, Vol. I. p. 268. 



Captain Furneaux, in 1744, paffed between Georgia Auflralis and 

 Sandwich-land (rather fuppofed a continent), without feeing either of 

 thefe new difcoveries, though the mountains on both are remarkably 

 high, particularly thole in Sandwich-land, one of which, by feveral, 

 -was confidered to equal TenerifF. 



Captain Furneaux could not have been well more than two - de- 

 grees from either or thefe countries. See his Track in the lately pub- 

 iifhed map. 



c See Captain Cook's voyage, Vol. II. p. 230. where he fuppofes land 

 near the South Pole, chiefly oppofite to the Southern Atlantic, and 

 Indian Oceans, as on thofe meridians ice is found as far North as 48 deg. 

 It is in this tract of Southern land that Cook fuppofes the ice to be 

 chiefly formed, which is met with in the Southern Oceans. Ibid.. 



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