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 countrymen, called them the Malouines, the denomination now ued by the Spaniards, who eem not, till very lately, to have thought them important enough to deerve a name.

the publication of Anon’s voyage, they have very much changed their opinion, finding a ettlement in Pepys’s or Falkland’s Iland recommended by the author as neceary to the ucces of our future expeditions againt the coat of Chili, and as of uch ue and importance, that it would produce many advantages in peace, and in war would make us matters of the South Sea.

any degree of judgment is ufficient to retrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained. The relator of Anon’s voyage had heated his mind with its various events, had partaken the hope with which it was ,