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of Cook, Vancouver, Bligh, D’Entrecas- 
teaux, Flinders, and Baudin, have gra- 
dually thrown a considerable light upon 
this extraordinary continent, for such 
it may be called. Of these and other 
voyages that were made during the 17th 
and 18th centuries to various parts of its 
coasts, an account is given by the late 
Captain Flinders, in his introduction to the 
Investigator’s voyage ; in which, and in 
that able and valuable work of the late 
Rear-Admiral Burney, “ A Chronological 
Account of Discoveries in the South Sea 
and Pacific Ocean,” the history of its pro- 
gressive discovery is amply detailed. 
nuit il faisoit un froid insuportable, et le jour on etoit 
brul6 des ardeurs du Soleil. Toute esperance de sa- 
lut sembloit etre retranchee, et les fatigues, aussi-bien 
que le manque de nourriture, avoient entierement epuise 
les forces de ces infortunes, lors-qu’un matin ils decou- 
vrirent les montagnes meridionales de la grande Java.'” 
This ship was probably wrecked in the neighbourhood 
of Dampier’s Archipelago, near which there is also an ac- 
count of the loss of a ship called the Vianen. 
