The account of the four first of these voyages, compiled by Dr. Hawkesworth, from the Journals of the several commanders, was published in 1772, in three volumes quarto; and Captain Cook’s own account of the fifth, in 1777, in two volumes quarto. Footnote 7: See Lord Anson’s Voyage, quarto edition, p. 91. Footnote 8: These are Captain Cook’s words, _Introduction to his Voyage_, vol. iii. p. 7.; and the evidence on which he forms this judgment may be met with in Hawkesworth’s Journal of Byron’s Voyage, vol. i. p. 23, 24, 51, 52, 53, 54. Footnote 9: See the Chart of Discoveries in the South Atlantic. Cook’s Voyage, vol. iv. p. 211. Footnote 10: Magalhaen’s Voyage was undertaken in 1519. Footnote 11: See the particulars of their discoveries in Mr. Dalrymple’s valuable Collection of Voyages in the South Pacific Ocean. Footnote 12: Bougainville, in 1768, did no more than discover that the land here was not connected but composed of islands. Captain Cook, in 1774, explored the whole group. See vol. iv. p. 88. Footnote 13: Vol. iv. p. 219. Footnote 14: See vols. i. and ii. Footnote 15: See vol. ii. p. 69. Footnote 16: Vol. iii. chap. 7. Footnote 17: Vol. ii. p. 202. Footnote 18: From October 6. 1769, to March 31. 1770. Footnote 19: Its southern extremity nearly in latitude 47°, and its northern in 35-1/2°. See Captain Cook’s chart, in Hawkesworth, vol. ii. p. 281. Footnote 20: See the track of Torré, in one of Quiros’s ships, in 1606, between New Holland and New Guinea, upon Mr. Dalrymple’s Chart of Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean, before 1764. Footnote 21: M. de Brosses says of New Guinea: “C’est une longue isle, ou presqu’ isle, si elle touche à la Nouvelle Hollande.” _Navigations aux Terres Australes_, tom. i. p. 434. Footnote 22: “Le triste état où nous étions réduits, ne nous permettoit de chercher en faisant route a l’ouest, un passage au sud de la Nouvelle Guinée, qui nous frayât par le Golfe de la Carpenterie une route nouvelle & courte aux iles Moluques. _Rien n’étoit à la vérité plus problématique que l’existence de ce passage._” Voyage autour du Monde, p. 259. Footnote 23: Hawkesworth, vol. iii. p. 660. Footnote 24: Hawkesworth, vol. i. p. 563. Footnote 25: The position of the Solomon Islands, Mendana’s celebrated discovery, will no longer remain a matter in debate amongst geographers, Mr. Dalrymple having, on the most satisfactory evidence, proved, that they are the cluster of islands which comprizes what has since been called New Britain, New Ireland, &c. The great light thrown on that cluster by Captain Carteret’s discovery, is a strong confirmation of this. See Mr. Dalrymple’s Collection of Voyages, vol. i. p. 16-21. Footnote 26: