( '97 ) 
Our conftant intercourfe with the Eaft 
Indies renders an acquaintance with the fi- 
tuation of that country indifpenfibly ne- 
ceffary. You read of fhips making their 
outward or homeward voyage in fix, feven, 
eight months, &c.j they touched at the Cape 
of Good Hope 5 they watered at St. Helena. 
Now, is it conceivable that a young gentle- 
man porTerTed of any curiofity, or the leaft 
inclination to knowledge, can reft fatisfied 
in the total ignorance of the diftance and 
fituation of places which affront him in 
every news-paper. The Cape is the fouth 
extremity of Africa, and the fmall ifland of 
St. Helena, you will find, in about fix de- 
grees of weft longitude and fifteen of fouth 
latitude. Other remarkable places are New- 
Holland, on the fouth-eaft coaft of which 
you will find Botany Bay, &c. and on the 
weft coaft of North America, in latitude 
50, you will lay your finger on Ncotka Scur.d, 
the prefent bone of contention between us 
and Spain. Before you quit this map, you 
will alfo take notice that the fea between 
Europe and North America, is called the 
Atlantic ; that between America and the eaft- 
crn coaft of Alia, the Pacific Ocean -, and 
N 3 that 
