[11]. See the particulars of their discoveries in Mr. Dalrymple’s valuable Collection of Voyages in the South Pacific Ocean.
[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.
[13]. Vol. iv. p. 219.
[14]. See vols. i. and ii.
[15]. See vol. ii. p. 69.
[16]. Vol. iii. chap. 7.
[17]. Vol. ii. p. 202.
[18]. From October 6. 1769, to March 31. 1770.
[19]. Its southern extremity nearly in latitude 47°, and its northern in 351⁄2°. See Captain Cook’s chart, in Hawkesworth, vol. ii. p. 281.
[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.