Volume 1

History of the voyages and discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ... in chronological order / [James Burney].

  • James Burney
Date:
1803-1817
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Credit: History of the voyages and discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ... in chronological order / [James Burney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C H A P. XX. Some Account of the Charts to this Volume, with Miscellaneous Observa- tions on the Geography of the 16th Century. Evidence in favour of the Probability that the Country, since named New Holland, was dis- covered by Europeans within that Period - - ,- --370 APPENDIX. Remarks on the Projection of Charts, and particularly on the Degree of Curvature proper to be given to the Parallels of Latitude - 383 ERRATA. Page 39, line 19, and in margin | for Virgines read Virgenes. 102, line 4, for where read whither. 109, in margin, - - dele Timor. 113, line 11, for circumdediste read circumdedisti. 121, line 10, for donple read double. 137, line 18, - for Cortez read Cortes. 181, line 9, for no tact read not act. 225, in the last 7 paragraph, i - for seen on their coast anchored before Awa, opposite the island Tsikok, read bad been feen in Au>a on the ifland Tsikok, lying oppofite. [The passage, as it is printed in p. 225, was taken from Scheuchzer’s translation of Kmmpfer’s History of Japan. In the original, the fa£t is stated as in the correction ] 336, in note *, - - far the same read similar. 329, line 14, - - infert an inverted comma. *
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