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Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook. — John Shaqi

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Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.

Name: Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.
Author: Major, Richard Henry

Major, Richard Henry

Australia -- Discovery and exploration; Discoveries in geography -- Portuguese; Voyages and travels

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The Hakluyt Society.

        EARLY VOYAGES TO TERRA AUSTRALIS, NOW CALLED AUSTRALIA.

                              M DCCC.LIX.

                             EARLY VOYAGES
                                   TO
                            TERRA AUSTRALIS,
                               NOW CALLED
                               AUSTRALIA:
  _A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS, AND EXTRACTS FROM EARLY MANUSCRIPT MAPS,
  ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERY ON THE COASTS OF THAT VAST
  ISLAND_, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE TIME OF
                             CAPTAIN COOK.

                    Edited, with an Introduction, by
                       R. H. MAJOR, ESQ., F.S.A.

                 “Austrinis pars est habitabilis oris,
     Sub pedibusque jacet nostris.”
                     MANILIUS, _Astronomicon_, lib. i, lin. 237–8.

                                LONDON:
                    PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
                              M.DCCC.LIX.

                                LONDON:
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                          THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

   SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., D.C.L., Corr. Mem.
 Inst. F., Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. Sc. St. Petersburg, &c., &c., PRESIDENT.

     THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.                   }
                                                 } VICE-PRESIDENTS.
     REAR-ADMIRAL C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B. }

     JOHN BARROW, ESQ.

     RT. HON. LORD BROUGHTON.

     THE LORD ALFRED SPENCER CHURCHILL.

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     RT. HON. SIR DAVID DUNDAS.

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     HIS EXCELLENCY THE COUNT DE LAVRADIO.

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     THE EARL OF SHEFFIELD.

     RT. HON. LORD TAUNTON.

             CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, ESQ., HONORARY SECRETARY.

                                   TO
                     SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON,
                       G.C.ST.S., D.C.L., F.R.S.,
                            ETC., ETC., ETC.

 DEAR SIR RODERICK,

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