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1776. nearly in the fame latitude, were difcovered, as I have men- 
tioned in my late voyage *, by Captains Marion du Frefne, 
and Crozet, French Navigators, in January 1772, on their 
paffage in two fliips from the Cape of Good Hope to the 
Philippine Iflands. As they have no names in the French 
chart of the Southern hemifphere, which Captain Crozet 
communicated to me in 1775 +> I ihall diftinguifti the two 
we now faw, by calling them Prince Edward’s lilands, after 
his Majefty’s fourth Ion ; and the other four, by the name 
of Marion’s and Crozet’s lilands, to commemorate their dif- 
coverers. 
We had now, for the moft part, ftrong gales between 
the North and Weft, and but very indifferent weather; not 
better, indeed, than we generally have in England in the 
very depth of Winter, though it was now the middle of 
Summer in this hemifphere. Not difcouraged, however, 
by this, after leaving Prince Edward’s Iflands, I fhaped our 
courfe to pafs to the Southward of the others, that I might 
get into the latitude of the land difcovered by Monfieur de 
Kerguelen. 
I had applied to the Chevalier de Borda, whom, as I have 
mentioned, I found at Teneriffe, requefting, that if he knew 
any thing of the ifland difcovered by Monfieur de Kergue¬ 
len, between the Cape of Good Hope and New Holland, he 
would be fo obliging as to communicate it to me. Accord¬ 
ingly, juft before we failed from Santa Cruz bay, he fent 
* Captain Cook's Voyage , VoL ii. p. 266. Thefe iflands are there faid to be in the la¬ 
titude of 48° South; that is, two degrees farther South, than what here appears to be 
their real pofition. 
f See Cook’s Voyage, as above. Dr. Forfter, in his Observations made during that, 
voyage, p. 30, gives us this defcription of the Chart then communicated by Monfieur Cro¬ 
zet: that it was publijhed under the patronage of the Duke de Croye , by Robert de Vaugondy. 
Captain Cook tells us, lower in this Chapter, that it was publifhed in 1773. 
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