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V. An Account of Falkland Iflands. By William Clay- 
ton, Efq. of his Majejifs Navy. 
R. Nov. 9, A L K L A N D’s Iflands, or, as the Spa- 
Jk niards and French call them, the 
Maloine Iflands, are fituated between the latitude of 
5 2° 26' and 5 1° 6' S. and longitude from London 56° to 
6o° 30' W. They are numberlefs, forming a mafs of 
broken high lands, or very low fedgy keys and funken 
rocks. The largeft is the Eafternmoft ifland, and on the 
Eaftern fide the Spaniards had a fettlement, which the 
crown of Spain purchafed of M. Bougainville, who, on 
his private account, had formed a fettlement in the year 
1764, at the time that Commodore byron had firft dif- 
covered Port Egmont. The next large ifland is of a very 
confiderable extent, and hath many excellent harbours 
on it. Between thefe two runs Falkland’s Sound, which 
is navigable through ; but the South entrance is pretty 
full of low fandy keys. Adjoining to the fecond large 
ifland, to the Weft ward, lies Saunders’s Ifland, on which 
the Englifh fettlement was made, a blockhoufe erecfted, 
leveral fpots inclofed for gardens and three ftorehoufes, 
and five dwell ing-houfes or huts, built at different times 
by the fhips crews who were ftationed there. The har- 
bour of Port Egmont was formed by thefe iflands, and 
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