576 BIBLIOGRAPHY Biblio- '^^ fin>t volume oontaint :— graphy. The Toyage of Don Pedro Fdrnandez de Quiros ; The voyage and shipwreck of Captain Francis Pelsiart, on ihe coast of New Holland ; The voyage of Captain Abel Jansen Tasman for the discovery of southern countries. CaUander : — Terra Austrtilis Cognita ; or, Voyages .to the Terra Australia, or Southern Hemisphere, during the Sixteenth, Seven- teenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Containing, &c. 8vo., 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1766-8. This work was an English translation of de Brosses, with addi- tions. At the end of the third volume (pp. 715-745) there is a chapter — "Of the method of forming Colonies in the Terra Aus- tralis, and the Advantages that may be expected to result to Great Britain from such Establishments in that Hemisphere/' The writer, following de Brosses, advised the settlement of Kew Britain in Australasia, as being the most advantageoas sitoation with raspeet to the countries where commerce was already established. Another advantage, he added, " that distinguishes it, is the climate, as lying not far from uie Equator, where (accordmg to Dampier) we mav always expect to find more materials for commerce wan in higher latitudes. Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand lie far to the sooth ami are little known. The ooasts of New Holland are of Tery difficult aeoess, and the parts that lie next the Soath Sea absolutely naked and barren. Carpentaria labours under the same disadvantage. None of these places ever appear fit for the first attempts, though they may be settled afterwards, and perhaps to advantage. . . . Both Bog^wein and Dampier affree in giving preference to New Britain. The ingenious French editor of the Voyages aux Terres Au^raUSt tome 2, p. 385, thinks there is no place so proper as this to fix on. He proposes to settle it by sending three ships from Fondicherry.'* (pp. 742-43.) From this time forward voyages were made for the sake of science rather than pltmder. In 1764-68, three expeditions — in- cluding vessels under the command of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, and Cook — were sent to the South Sea. Alexander Dalrymple, who had been in the East India Com- pany's service, and had returned home to advocate Southern discoveries, hoped to receive the command of the expedition sent out under Cook, the object of which was primarily to observe the transit of Venus in the island of Otaheite. He published — An Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pacific Ocean previous to 1764. Part I, 8vo., pp. xxxi, 103, with charta London^ 1767. Historical Collection of the several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean, with maps. Translated into French and German. 2 vols., 4to. London, 1770-71. To the three divisions of de Brosses, Dalrymple added a fourth — Australia — thus reviving a name used before, but whidi had lapsed for more than a century. Digitized by Google
