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New Zealand (continued)
However Mr Dalrymple and some Geographers have laid down Roggeween's track very different from M. Pingre. After leaving From Easter Isle they have laid down his track to the N.W. and afterwards very little different from that of Le Maire, and this I think is not probable that a Man who at his own request was sent to discover the Southern Continent should take the same rout thro' these Seas as others had done before who had the same thing in View, by so doing he must be morally certain of not finding what he was in search of ^and of course must fail as they had done, be this as it may it is a point that cannot be clear'd up from the published accounts of the Voyage which so far from takeing proper Notice of their Longitude have not even mentioned the Latitude of several of the Islands they discover'd so that I find it impossible to lay down Roggeween's rout with the least degree of accuracy —
But to return to our own Voyage which must be allow'd to have set a side the most if not all the arguments and proofs that have been advance'd by different Authors to prove that there must be a Southern Continent, I mean to the northward of 40° So
© Transcribed from National Library of Australia Manuscript 1 page 218, 2004
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