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New Zealand (continued) the same Language was ^is Universally spoke by all the Islanders and this is a sufficient proff that both they and the New-Zelanders have had one Origin or Source   but where this is, even time perhaps many never discover, it certainly is neither to the Southward and ^nor Eastward for I cannot preswaid my self that ever they came from America and as to ^a Southern Continent I do not beleive any such thing exists unless in a high Latitude, but as the Contrary oppinion hath for many years prevaild and may yet prevail it is necessary I should say some thing in support of mine more than what will be dire [c] try point out by the track of this Ship in those seas   for from that alone it will evidently appear that there is a large space of Sea extending quite to the Tropick in which ^we were not or any other before us that we can aver for certain. In our rout to the northward after doubling Cape Horn, when in the Latitude of 40° we were in the Longitude of 110° - and in our return to the Southward after leaving Ulietea when in the same Latitude we were in the Longitude of 145°; the difference in this Latitude is 35°. In the Latitude of 30° the difference of the two tracks is 21° and that difference continues as low as 20° but a view of the Chart will best illusterate this. Here is now room enough Voyaging Accounts © Transcribed from National Library of Australia Manuscript 1 page 216, 2004 Published by South Seas To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook_remarks-068