the South-Sea. 



Jiave taken Notice of at Page 30 j fo that little Regard is to 

 be had to them. However, they repofing Confidence in 

 them, thought thcmfelves very far from the Continent ; 

 and reckoning they were too much to the Eaftward, ran 

 alfo 300 Leagues too far Weft in the South-Sea ; fo that 

 they thought they had been running upon Guinea, w licit 

 they made Land at Hilo; but the third and moft convincing 

 is, that we and our Comrades muft have run over that new 

 Land, according to the Longitude in which it was laid 

 downintheManufcript Chart j and it is morally impoffible 

 that a Ship lhould have had no Sight of it, being about 50 

 Leagues in Length E. S. E. and W. N. W. Thus there is 

 no Room to doubt, but that it was the North Part of the 

 oew Iflands, whofe Weftern Part, which is yet unknown, 

 Time will difcover. 



Thefe Iflands are certainly the fame which Sir Richard 

 Hawhm difcover'd in 1593. Being to the Eaftward of 

 the Defart Coaft, in about 50 Degrees, he was drove by 

 a Storm upon an unknown Land; he ran along that Ifland 

 about 60 Leagues, and faw Fires, which made him con- 

 clude that it was inhabited. 



Hitherto thofe Lands have been callM Sibald's Iflands, 

 becaufe it was believ'd, that the three which bear that Name 

 cn the Charts were fo laid down at Will, for want of bet- 

 ter Knowledge ; but the Ship the Incarnation, commanded 

 by the Sieur Brignon of S. Malo, had a near View of them 

 in fair Weather, in 171 1, coming out of Rio de Janeiro. 

 They are, in Ihort, three little Iflands, about half a League 

 in Length, lying in a Triangle, as they are laid down in 

 the Charts. They pafs'd by at three or four Leagues Di- 

 ftance, and they had no Sight of Land, tho' in very open 

 Weather, which proves, that they are at leaft feven or eight 

 Leagues from the new Iflands. 



In fine, I have fet down in Roman Numbers the Varia- 

 tions of the Needle obferv'd in thofe Parts, where its De- 

 clination i$ very cgnfiderable to the N. E. for we have ob- 



P p " ri m ferv'd 



