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fjkt of Havre, who endeavour'd to pafs into an Opening he 

 law about the Middle ; but having fpy'd fome low I (lands, 

 almoft level with the Water, he thought fit to tack about. 

 This Range of Iflands is the (ame that Monfieur Fouquet of 

 vAnican S. Malo difcover'd, and to which he gave the Name otAni* 

 Jjlands: can ^ t [ ]C p cr f on that hid fet him out. The Tracks J have 

 traced will fliew the Bearing of thofe Lands in regard to 

 Streight le Maire, which the S. John Baptifi was come out 

 of, when he faw them, and with refpeft to Staten Landt, 

 which the other two had feen before they found them. 

 The North Part of thofe Lands, which is here under the 

 Coafi of the Name of the Coaft of the Affumption, was difcover'd on the 

 Aflbmption. 16th of July 1708, by Poiei of S. Malo, who gave it the 

 Name of the Ship he commanded. It was look'd upon as 

 a new Land, about 100 Leagues Eaft of the new Ifles I 

 fpeak of; but 1 have made no Difficulty to join it to the 

 others, having convincing Reafons for lo doing. 



The fii -ft is, that the Latitudes obfeiVd to the Northward 

 and to the Southward of thofe Hlands, and the Bearing of 

 the Parts known, anfwer exactly to the fame Point of Re- 

 union on the Eaft-fide 3 without leaving any Space between 

 them. 



The fecond \s y that there is no Reafon to .judge that 

 Coaft of the Affumption to be Eaft of the Ifles of Anican i 

 for Monfieur le Gobien de Saint Jean, who has been pleas'd 

 to fhew me an Extract of his Journal, judges it to lie 

 South from the Mouth of the River of Plate, which being 

 taken ftri&ly, could not remove it above two or three De- 

 grees to the Eaftward, that is, about 25 01*30 Leagues; 

 but the Diverfity of Judgments is always a Token of Un- 

 certainty. The firft Time they faw that Coaft, as they 

 came from the Ifland of S. Katharine, they judg'd it to be 

 in 3 29 Degrees ; and the fecond, coming from the River of 

 Plate, whither the contrary Winds had obliged him to go 

 and anchor, after having attempted to pafs CupeHorn, they 

 judg'd it to be in 322 Degrees, and, according to fome, in 

 3 24.J on Peter Goos his Charts, the Errors whereof we 



have 



