[5]. See the Note, p. 32.
[6]. See the note, p. 32.
[7]. The word Survey is not here to be understood in its literal sense. Surveying a place, according to my idea, is taking a geometrical plan of it, in which every place is to have its true situation, which cannot be done in a work of this nature.
[8]. See Quiros’s Voyage, in Dalrymple’s Collection, vol. i. p. 136, 137.
[9]. See Vol. III.
[10]. See the note at p. 32. of this volume.
[11]. Wafer met with Indians in the isthmus of Darien of the colour of a white horse. See his Description of the Isthmus, p. 134. See also Mr. de Paw’s Philosophical Inquiries concerning the Americans, where several other instances of this remarkable whiteness are mentioned, and the causes of it attempted to be explained.
[12]. See his Voyage, English translation, p. 303.
[13]. Vide Hawkesworth’s Voyages, vol. iii.
[14]. It is not to be supposed that I could know at this time that the Adventure had made the passage before me.