. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts. the disco-veries made previous to 1579. tlnceitain Besides the islands which are laid down in that chart, somein the islands appear in tlie early charts, of which no accounts haveCharts, been found. In 16 degrees South, and 12 degrees West fromthe coast of Feru, are placed a group of islands, called InsuloiIncognita;, the Unknown Islands. It is certain that if islandsreally existed near that situation, they would not have remainedtill this time unknown. In latitude 36° South, and much near
. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts. the disco-veries made previous to 1579. tlnceitain Besides the islands which are laid down in that chart, somein the islands appear in tlie early charts, of which no accounts haveCharts, been found. In 16 degrees South, and 12 degrees West fromthe coast of Feru, are placed a group of islands, called InsuloiIncognita;, the Unknown Islands. It is certain that if islandsreally existed near that situation, they would not have remainedtill this time unknown. In latitude 36° South, and much nearerthe American coast, are islands Vistas de lexos (seen from afar).In the Theat. Orb. of Ortelius, Chart N 3, between the latitudesof irr and 20° North, and 35 degrees East from the PhilippineIslands, are a groupe of islands, with the names La Vezina (TheNeighbour), La Besgraciada (The Unpleasant), and Los Monjes(The Monks). These last islands have the appearance of beingfounded upon some real discovery; but the uncertainty respect-ing them is increased, by islands with the same names, and6 nearly. [ 382 ] CHAP. 20. Hire revived it 150 years .afterwards, lie was supposed to be theoriginal inventor. It is particularly observable, that the great Terra Australis ofthe geographers of the 16th centurj^ in all the charts, is broughtfarther to the North near the Eastern islands, than in any otherpart of its progress round the Antarctic Pole. That Rotz, orsome of his intimates, visited the Great Java, appears probable, from the coast being delineated in his chart, with greaterresemblance to that of New Holland, than is to be found in thecharts of many 3cars later date. All these circumstances justifyand support the opinion, that the Northern and Western coastsof New Holland were known, and were the Great Java of theI6th century. There are likewise reasons for supposing that theEastern coast had been seen; but they are not sufficient to au-thorize the insertion of any part of it, in a
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