the South Sea. 



very much refembling a Bell. Whence 'tis evident, that if 

 our Ifland were Afcenjio.n, there can be no fuch as Trinidad 

 Eaft therefrom. And he challenges M. Frezier to produce 

 any Authentick Account of Land feen thereabout, that was 

 not in the faid Latitude of 20 Degrees 20 Minutes. 



Befides, this Latitude has been often examined by Ships 

 which have had the Mifchance, for want of an Obfervation, 

 to mifs the Ifland of S. Helena, and have been obliged to 

 look for thefe Iflands, in hopes to find a Watering-place* 

 Particularly Commadore Warren, with a Squadron of five 

 Men of War in the Year 1 69 5> being bound to S. Helena, and 

 defign'd Convoy to the homeward-bound Eaft-India Fleet, 

 had the misfortune to fall to Leeward of that Ifland, and be- 

 ing in great want of Water, he hoped to find relief at fome 

 of thofe Ifles which the Charts defcribe between the La- 

 titudes of 20 and 2 1 Degrees : And not being fure of their 

 Situation, he fpread his Ships fo as nothing between thofe 

 twoParallels could be pafs'd by undiscovered : But following 

 a dueWeft Courfe almoft home to the Main o(BraJil,for near 

 400 Leagues, he found no other than this fingle Ifland which 

 we call Trinidad, and the French Afccnjion ; which afforded 

 him no fufficient Water-place. Moreover, all the Iflands 

 thereabout being by Letters Patents of his late Majcfty King 

 William, granted to Sir John Hoslyns, late of Harzvood in 

 the County of Hereford, Bart, and to his Heirs ; the faid 

 Honourable Proprietor has caufed PofTeffion of the faid Tri~ 

 ?iidad to be taken for his Ufe, in the name of the Crown of 

 England, and has put live Stock thereon ; having found 

 himfelf difappointed of all the reft that are laid down in the 

 Charts, which upon due fearch he was fatisfied were not 

 in rerum natura. 



It muft however be owned, as an Obligation from 

 M. Frezier, that he does not require the Site of the Iflands 

 of 'Dos Picos, Maria d'Agofta and Martin Vaz, as well as 

 that of 'Trinidad, and that of Pe?ion de S.Paulo, which he 

 mifcalls deS. Pedro, of the Omiffion whereof he complains 

 in his laft Leaf. This latter may, for ought we know to 



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