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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.
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. 257-8.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
M.DCCC.LIX.
