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A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS, AND EXTRACTS FROM EARLY MANUSCRIPT MAPS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERY ON THE COASTS OF THAT VAST ISLAND.

FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE TIME OF CAPTAIN COOK.

R. H. MAJOR, ., F.S.A.

"Austrinis pars est habitabilis oris, Sub pedibusque jacet nostris.", Astronomicon, lib. i, lin. 257-8.

M.DCCC.LIX.