The earth and its inhabitants .. . rers who ventured into these waters that here the Atlantic and Pacific inter-mingled over a wide expanse. EXPLOEATION OF THE CHILIAN MAINLAND. 405 Marcant, the only French navigator who took part in these explorations,penetrated into Magellan Strait in 1713, in order to reach the west coast ofAmerica, but instead of following the Long Reach of the channel, he divergedinto a lateral branch, now called Barbara Passage from the name of his vessel. Meanwhile, the Jesuit missionaries had traversed Chili in various directions,and had prepared more accurate charts t
The earth and its inhabitants .. . rers who ventured into these waters that here the Atlantic and Pacific inter-mingled over a wide expanse. EXPLOEATION OF THE CHILIAN MAINLAND. 405 Marcant, the only French navigator who took part in these explorations,penetrated into Magellan Strait in 1713, in order to reach the west coast ofAmerica, but instead of following the Long Reach of the channel, he divergedinto a lateral branch, now called Barbara Passage from the name of his vessel. Meanwhile, the Jesuit missionaries had traversed Chili in various directions,and had prepared more accurate charts than those of the first navigators. In 1H46the missionary Ovalle had already had a map of Chili printed in Rome far superiorto those previously issued. Sanson dAbbeville had little to add when reproducingit ten years later. Other missionaries had crossed the Andes to found stations amid the Patagoniansof the eastern slopes, as appears from the ruins of ancient missions on the shores Fig. 152.—Statex 1 .? 1,100, IS miles. of Lake Nahuel Huapi, discovered by Basil Villarino during his explorations inthe Rio Negro basin in 1782. On their expulsion from Chili, the Jesuits broughtaway some valuable geographical materials. Ignacio Molina, amongst others,published at Bologna several works on Chili, in which is summed up all that wasknown of that region at the end of the eighteenth century, that is to say, beforethe period of political and social transformation which was soon to , a French priest of the Order of Minims, had approximately determinedthe longitude of the Cliilian seaboard early in the same century. His observationsremained uncontrolled till corrected by the mariners of various nations during thecourse of the present century. 406 SOUTH AMEKICA—THE ANDES EEGIONS. Later of Tikrka del Fueoo. After the establishment of the Chilian Republic, Great Britain, desirous ofincreasing her commercial relations with the regions which had
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