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c H A P. circnmftances, and from the diredion in which it trended, 
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w-*' no doubt was entertained of its joining that which was 
caJied by Captain Carteret, Lord Anfon's Ifle. With 
refpe<rt; to the charts here given of thefe difcoveries, 
Lieutenant Shortland, though he cannot, from the dif- 
tance at which they were taken, prefume to vouch for 
the laying down of every ilngle point, as if the coaft 
' had undergone a regular furvey, undertakes to pro- 
mife, that they are fufhciently accurate for the direc- 
tion of any future navigators ; as he had, in the courfe 
of his progrefs along it, many opportunities of taking 
hinar obfervations. 
Aa^rfig, At fix in the afternoon of Saturday, Augufl: 9th, the 
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extreme point in fight of the high land to the weftward 
of the pafTage, bore fouth-wefl by fouth, diftant twelve 
or fourteen leagues : and two iflands which the fliip had 
raft made, bore north-weft by north, diftant five or fix: 
leagues. They are fuppofed to lie in latitude 4° 50' 
fouth, iind longitude 156° ii'eaft. At day light on 
A-igyft 10, Sunday Auguft i oth. Lieutenant Shortland fet his fteer- 
^^'^^ ing fails, and bore away to the north-weft, in order to 
make more diftin6l]y the iflands feen the preceding 
evening. At fix in the morning, four were in light, 
and bore fouth-weft, diftant fix leagues. It was at firft 
ihought that they would prove to be the nine iflands 
feen 
