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Solitary Island, discovered by Mendana on the above-named voyage. 
1606 Archipelayo oe Espirito Santo, discovered by Guiros, a Portuguese, sent 
ont) Peru. These islands are the Cyclades of Bougainville, and the New 
Hebrides of Cook. 
Otaheite, supposed to be discovered by Guiros, who named it Sagittaria. 
1607 | Hudson’s Bay, discovered by the celebrated English navigator, Hudson, 
1610 on his third voyage. Venturing to pass the winter in this Bay on his 
fourth voyage, he was, with fone others, thrown by his sailors into a 
boat, and left to perish. 
1607 Chesapeak Bay, discovered by John Smith. 
1615 Straiis of Le Maire, discovered, with the island of Staten on the east, by 
Le Maire, a merchant of Amsterdam, and Schouten, a merchant of Horn. 
1616 Cape Horn, doubled by Le Maire and Schouten, Dutch navigators, who 
called it after the town of which Schouten was a native. These enter- 
prising men performed a voyage round the world in about two years. 
1616 Van Dieman’s Land, discovered by the Dutch. 
1616 Baffin’s Bay, discovered by William Baffin, an Englishman. The nature 
and extent of this discovery were much doubted, till the expeditions of 
Ross and Parry proved that Baffin was substantially accurate in his state- 
ment. 
1636 Frozen Ocean. In this year the Russians discovered that this ocean wash- 
ed and bounded the north of Asia. The first Russian ship sailed down 
the Lena into this sea. 
1642 New Zealand, with the southern part of Van Dieman’s Land, discovered 
by Tasman, a Dutch navigator. 
1654 Bourbon, Isle of, occupied by the French. 
1673 Louisiana, discovered by the French. This country received its name 
from La Salle, a Frenchman, who explored the Mississippi, in 1682. 
1686 Easter Island, discovered by Roggewein, a Dutch navigator. 
1690 Kamschatka, the principal settlement of the Russians on the coast of Asia, 
discovered by a Cossack chicf, Morosko. The country was taken posses- 
sion of by the Russians in 1697. 
1692 Japan. Carefully visited by Kemfer, a German. 
1699 New Britain. ‘This island, and the straits which separate it from New 
Guinea, discovered by Dampier. ‘This enterpristng seaman made a voy- 
age round the world at the period of this discovery. 
1711 Kurile Isles, occupied by the Russians. The people of these islands, 
which are twenty-one in Bubes still pay tribute to Russia. They are 
principally volcanic. 
1728 Behring’s Strait, explored and designated by a Danish navigator in the 
service of Russia, whose name it bears. Behring thus established that 
the continents of Asia and America are not united, but are distant from 
each other about thirty-nine miles. 
1728 Kamschatka, ascertained by Behring to be a peninsula. 
1741 Aleutian Isles, on the coast of North America, discovered by Behring. 
A more accurate survey of these islands was made under the Russian Go-~ 
vernment, by Captains Billing and Sarytchef, from 1781 to 1798. 
1765 Duke of York’s Island, discovered by Byron, 
Isles of Danger, discovered by Byron. 
1767 Otaheite, discovered by Wallis. © 
1768 Cook’s Strait, discovered by Captain Cook on his first voyage round the 
. World, which occupied from 1768 to 1771. 
1770 New South Wales, discovered by Captain Cook. 
1772 Island of Desolation, the first land south of India, discovered by Kergue« 
len, and called by his name. Subsequently called the Island of Desola- 
tion by Captain Cook. 
1774 New Caledonia, discovered by Cook in his second voyage, 1772—-1778, 
1778 Icy Cape, discovered by Captain Cock, 
