An account of several late voyages and discoveries

vt The Incrodud:ion; ,) thrce Ttars. This i11A1 the fif1h Cir,11m11At1igAtio:1 . of t/,e Globe. A. D. 1609, 1610. Pedro Fcrdinand Giro\ • Portugucfc, a11á C11pt. Ferdinand de Q.uir, , Spaniard, ao both A/firm, That thrJ f ailed at je'llt• r4/ times aiMJe 800 Le11g11es together on the Co.tfl of • Southcrn Contincnt, 1mt1! thry ,,,,,, to tl1t height of Is dtgrtes o/ South Latitude, where 1l1tJ foraul II very frttitfrtl, pluj'.int aná fop11lous Co,,11, trJ. Giros began 10 t,ke hiJ Cottr/t in the ht{~ht of the Strtights of Magellan. 'J'his 1.111ft Tralt oj La,ul. perhapJ 1'JIJ ,e onejiáe of, or m:,y belon.~ ,~ Jc1nfcn Tafman's Land, Vand Diemcn's Land Zclandia Nova. Hollandia Nova, Carpenta, ria, and. New Guinea; ,vhich the Dutch 11¡111. w,1rtls ,oajled, Anti gave J.Tames to 1/UIIJ Bap, Rivers ami. Cipes, in tl,e 1'e11rs 1619, 1622, 1627, 1628, 1642, Afia 16.¡.4, fro,n the Equi, nofiial to 44 deg South L4t. The Hollanders hAvt indeeJ maáe the greattf. Diftoveries torvarás the South Terra Incognita: f1Jb1&h the, hAve 1/0t yet áivulg "a. Dil'I< Rcm, brantfe abortt 1 ~ or 16 Tedrs Ago publiJh·J in Lo\\' Dutch. afbort RtlAtion 0111 ofthe ;011rnal of Cat tain Abcl Janfen Tafman t1po» his Difcoveriesc! the S011th Tcrra Inr.ognita bi the 1'tar 1642, ti the So11thw11rd o¡ Nova Hollandb, V:mdeman·1 Land, &,_.. 'Tis rtÍ11Arltab/e that al/ the Circuw:m, v ig"tor, of. the Giobe enter'd in:o the Eafl Indic!, ~ither by tbe Philippincs or the Molucco s, bár-J peradventure himircd Jrom p.1/J;ng rotmd mr,1: So11thrva.rás bJ th:zt ?. 1 ~/1 long Ch11i;, if L,d . JPbi,h.fecms ttJ flretch a/m,1l from the Epuinoéh , 1 C•