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 But it is however anoh copy of Tasman's Original. The manner of spelling, prove in the most convincing manner, that this copy was written  a century ago. It contains all those accounts, which have been published as an abstract of Tasman's Journal, by Valentine Dalrymple and several other accounts never published.

But this old Dutch copy is a very faulty one. There is not a single stop in all the Journal, which makes the translation of it tedious and difficult. Many words are elft out, and some written twice, or spelled badly, principally the Latin and foreign ones. In several places