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COOK’s VOYAGE, 
tity of the beans called ox-eyes, which are known to grow no- 
where but in the Weft-Indies, are eV'ery year- thrown up on the 
coaft of Ireland, which is not lefs than twelve hundred leagues 
diftant. 
Thus have I given my reafons for thinking that there is no 
cdntinent to the northward of latitude 40° S. ; of what may- 
lie farther to the fouthward than 40° I can give no opinion ; 
but I am fo far from whiling to dilcourage any future attempt, 
finally to determine a queftion which has long been- an object 
of attention to many nations ; that now this- voyage has re- 
duced the only poifihle feite of a continent- in the fouthern he- 
mifphere, north of latitude 4c 0 , to-To fmall a fpace, I think 
it would be pity to leave that any longer unexamined, efpe- 
cially as the voyage may turn to good account, befides deter- 
mining the principal queftion, if no continent fhould be found, 
by the difeovery of new iflands in the tropical regions, of which, 
there is probably a great number, that no European veflel 
has ever yet viuted. Tupia from time to time gave us an ac- 
count of about one hundred and thirty, and in a chart drawn- 
by his own hand, he actually laid down no lefs than feventy- 
four. 
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MC.C O U N TV 
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VOYAGE' round the WORLD. 
BOOK -III. 
CHAP T. E R I. 
f’fte run from New Zealand to Botany Bay , on the Eajl Conf of 
New Holland, nonv called New South Wales ; ‘various incidents 
that happened there ; with fame account of the- country , and its 
inhabitants. 
AVING failed from Cape Farewell, which lies in 
latitude 40: 33 S. longitude 186 W. on Saturday 
• the 31ft of March 1770, we fleered weft ward, with a 
fj-efh gale at N. N< E. and at noon on the 2d of April, our 
latitude by obi’ervation, was 40 ° } our longitude from Cape 
Farewell 2:31 W»- 
In 
