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Dhmens Land found out by the Dutch in 1 64a* 



Sixthly, That to the Eaftward of the Moluccas 

 and Van Diemens Land in South Latitude there 

 arifes another Eafterly Variation, which feems 

 not fo great as the former, nor of fo large Extent j 

 for that at the Ifland Rotterdam it is fenfibly left 

 than upon the Eaft Coaft of New Guinea; and, at 

 the rate it decreafes, it may well be fappos'd, that 

 about 10 Degrees farther Eaft, or xzy Degrees 

 Eaft Longitude From London, in the Latitude of 

 20 Degrees South, a Wefterly Variation begins. 



Seventhly, That the Variations obferv'd by the 

 Honourable Sir John Norborough at Baldivia^ and 

 at the Weft Entrance of the Straights of Magellan 

 do plainly mew, that That Eaft Variation, no- 

 red in our third Remark, is decreafing apace j 

 and that it cannot reafbnably extend many De«i 

 grees into the South Sea from the Coaft of Peru 

 2nd Chili, leaving room for a fmall Wefterly 

 Variation, in that TracT: of the unknown World 

 that lies in the mid- way between Chili and 

 Mew-Zealand , and between Hounds-IJland and 

 Peru. 



Eighthly, That in Sailing North- Weft from 

 St. Helena by Afcenfiwiy as far as the Equator, the 

 Variation continues very fmall Eaft, and as k 

 were conftantly the fame : So that in this part 

 of the World the Courfe, wherein there is no 

 Variation, is evidently no Meridian, but rather 

 North-Weft. 



Ninthly , That the Entrance of Hudfori* 

 Straights t and the Mouth of the River of Plate, 

 being nearly under the fame Meridian, at the 

 D one 



