Geographers have indeed laid down part of Quiros's discoveries in this Longitude and have told us that he had their signs of a Continent a part of which they have actually laid down in their Maps but by what authority I know not, Quiros in the Latitude of 25° _^^{or 26° So} discover'd Two Islands which I Suppose may lay between the Longitudes of 130° and 140° West, Dalrymple lays them down in 146° W^t and says that Quiros saw to the Southward very large hanging clowds and a very thick horizon, with other known signs of a Continent: other accounts of the Voyage says not a word about this but supposing the for it to be true, hanging Clowds and a thick horizon are certainly no known Signs of a Continent, I have had _^^ma[n]y proofs to the contrary in the Course of this Voyage, neither do I beleive that Quiros himself looked upon such things as known signs of land for if he had he certainly would have stood to the Southward in order to have satisfied himself before he had gone to the northward for no man seems to have had discoveries more at heart than Quiros. he had._^ ^{besides this was the ultimate object of his Voyage} If therefore Quiros was in the Latitude of 26° and Longitude 146° West

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