General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 - By Robert Kerr














































































































 -  He ran in a westward direction along the coasts,
either of a continent or numerous islands, for 200 or 300 - Page 710
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"He Ran In A Westward Direction Along The Coasts, Either Of A Continent Or Numerous Islands, For 200 Or 300

Miles, forming large bays, and abounding with the spermaceti whale, seals, &c. He took numerous soundings and bearings, draughts and

Charts of the coast." He also landed and took possession of the country in the name of his sovereign, and called his acquisition New South Shetland. He represents the climate as temperate, the coast mountainous, apparently uninhabited, but not destitute of vegetation, as he observed firs and pines in many places; and on the whole, the country appeared to him very much like the coast of Norway.

It may seem extraordinary that land of this extent should not have been discovered by any former navigator; but the surprise will cease, when we reflect that though Captain Cook penetrated much further to the south than the latitude of New South Shetland, yet his meridian was 45 degrees farther to the west, and that he thus left a large expanse of sea unexplored, on the parallel of 62 deg. between that and Sandwich land, the longitude of which is 22 deg. west. He indeed likewise reached 67 deg. south latitude: but this was in longitude from 137 deg. to 147 deg. west. Now the longitude of New South Shetland being 60 deg. west, it is evident that Captain Cook in his first attempt, left unexplored the whole extent of longitude from 28 deg., the longitude of Sandwich land, to 60 deg., the longitude of New South Shetland; and in his second attempt, he was still further from the position of this new discovered land.

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