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Rh of Cook, Vancouver, Bligh, D'Entrecasteaux, Flinders, and Baudin, have gradually thrown a considerable light upon this extraordinary continent, for such it may be called. Of these and other voyages that were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to various parts of its coasts, an account is given by the late Captain Flinders, in his introduction to the Investigator's voyage; in which, and in that able and valuable work of the late Rear-Admiral Burney, "A Chronological Account of Discoveries in the South Sea and Pacific Ocean," the history of its progressive discovery is amply detailed.