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Cook's Description of Places

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New Zealand (continued) than I am certain that no part of the Southern continent can ^no where extend so far to the Northward as the above mentioned Latitude. But the Voyage which seems to place thrust the it farthest back in the Longitude I am speaking of viz, betwixt 130° and 150° West, is that of Admiral Roggeween a Dutch man made in 1722, who after leaving Juan Fernandes went in search of Davis's Island, but not finding it he ran 12° More to the West and in the Latitude of 28°½ discover'd Easter Island. Dalrymple and some others have laid it down in 27° So ^& 106°..30' West and supposes it to be ^the same as Davis's Isle which I think cannot be from the circumstance of the Voyage. On the other hand M. Pingre in his Treatise concerning the Transit of Venus, gives an extract of Roggeween's Voyage and a Map of the South Seas, where in he place[s] Easter Island in the Latitude of 28½° So and in the Longitude of 123° West: his reasons for so doing may be seen at large in the said treatise, he like wise lays down Roggeween's rout thro' these Seas very different from any other author I have seen, for after leaving Easter Island he makes him to steer SW to the height of 34° South and afterwards WNW. If Roggeween realy took this rout than it is not probable that there is any ^main land to the Northward of 35° South Voyaging Accounts © Transcribed from National Library of Australia Manuscript 1 page 217, 2004 Published by South Seas To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook_remarks-070