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To the Reader 
Narrative which are not in this Map. Herewith the 
most considerable. I have spoken at pages 36 & 40 of 
Cape Saint Augustin. This place is well known by 
navigators, & nevertheless I do not find it in any map. 
As I have not been there, it would be unwise for me 
to give the proper position ; but I certainly know that 
’tis upon the west Coast of Madagascar, & in the 
province of la Hayfouchy, or la Hefonti. At pages 49 
& 50, where I have said something of the Province of 
the Machicorres , I have remark’d that ’tis distant by more 
than 150 Leagues by Land from Fort Dauphin, & more¬ 
over, ’tis necessary to remark that there are two Provinces 
in Madagascar which have this same Name, tho’ they are 
at some distance one from the other. The first, & 
which is in the South Part of the Isle, is quite near Fort 
Dauphin. The other is at a much greater distance & is 
upon the West Coast of Madagascar. ’Tis nam’d in¬ 
differently the Province of the Machicorres , or of la 
Hayfouchy ; ’Tis of this last that I intend to speak. With 
regard to the river des Mats & of the old & new 
Macellage , one of which I have spoken of on pages 35 
& 36, as these places have not yet been well explor’d 
there’s no need to be astonish’d if they are not in the 
Maps. I have remark’d also, page 82, that the principal 
settlements of the Isle of Bourbon were Sainte Susanne , 
Saint Denis, Saint Paul & Saint Gilles. Of these four 
settlements, Sainte Susanne & Saint Denis are not in 
the Map of Sieur Sanson, or in any other. Saint Denis 
is distant from Saint Paul 7 French leagues by land 
& four by sea, sailing towards the East & adjoining 
the Cape Saint Bernard. Sainte Susanne is at five leagues 
from Saint Denis, both by sea & by land, sailing also 
towards the East. The sieur Sanson names the Province 
which the French inhabit in Madagascar, after some 
others, Carcanossi ; nevertheless in all the time which I 
