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 xjudv ^.V INTRODUCTORY Noavelle HoUande. The name was continued by later geo- graphers. Pennant's Outlines of the Globe (1800), and Pinker- ton's Modern Geography (1802) — ^pp. 590-1, were the principal works of the kind at that time ; and in each the country was described as New Holland. In the third place, the name Terra Australis was not used in the instructions given to Tasman, nor in any of the extracts from the Dutch archives and publications collected by Major* — from which it may be inferred that the Dutch geographers did not at any time apply that name to the country in question. It is singular that an author of the present day, having this fact before him in his own pages, should nevertheless have followed the example set by Flinders in adopting a misleading title for his work. The inaccuracy may be compared with another in p. Ixxiii of the same treatise, where it is said that '^ Quiros came to a land which he named Australia del Espiritu Santo ^' ; the name actually given being — la Austrialia del Espiritu Santo, Bumey pointed out in 1818 that the Dutch did not apply the name Terra Australis to their discoveries : — '^ Throughout the instructions to Tasman for his second voyage, the Terra Australis is called the Groote Zuid- land, or On-bekende Zuid-land, i.e., the Great or the Unknown South Land."t But Burney did not see the absurdity of his calling the country Terra Australis, when the men who had made its exploration their business for at least a century never did so. In the fourth place, the French geographers, whose opinions are entitled to very great weight, appear to have uniformly observed the Dutch practice in this matter; that is, in not confounding New Holland with Terra Australis. It is evident from the work of de Brosses that when he spoke of the Tenses Australea, he meant nothing more than the lands discovered in the South Seas. He drew a clear line of distinction between the unknown continent and the discoveries in New Holland, New Guinea, and New Zealand, of which he says (tom. i, p. 16) — • Early Voyages to Terra Australis, pp. 43-98, 112-138, 165-189; post, p. 572. t Voyages in the South Sea, toI. iii, p. 181. Digitized by Google