 | 1824 - 1008 pàgines
...such discovery. There are two charts in the British Museum which belonged to the Harlcian Co/lection, one French, without date, which was probably the original,...an extensive tract of country to the southward of Progress of the Moluccas, under the name of Great Java, agreeDiscovery. ¡Ug more nearly with the position... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 406 pàgines
...date, and evidently a translation of the foregoing. On these charts, an extensive country is marked to the southward of the Moluccas, under the name of Great Java : it agrees more in position and extent with Terra Australia, than with any other land ; and the tracing... | |
 | William Henry Wells - 1848 - 518 pàgines
...date, and evidently a translation of the foregoing. On these charts, an extensive country is marked to the southward of the Moluccas, under the name of Great Java: it agrees more in position and extent with Terra Australis, than with any other land ; and the tracing... | |
 | William Westgarth - 1861 - 320 pàgines
...Dutch.* There are two charts in the British Museum * See, however, on this subject, our remarks at p. 5. which belonged to the Harleian Collection ; one French,...and extent of New Holland than any other land. The best and most authentic abstract of the Dutch discoveries on the coasts of New Holland is contained... | |
 | George French Angas - 1865 - 392 pàgines
...to any authentic accounts we have of its discovery. On this chart an extensive country is laid down to the southward of the Moluccas, under the name of Great Java, "which," says Flinders, " agrees nearer with the position and extent of Terra Australis than of any... | |
 | Henry Stuart Russell - 1888 - 652 pàgines
...bears with the date, 1542, a dedication to the King of England.* In it an extensive country is marked to the southward of the Moluccas, under the name of Great Java; which agrees nearer with the position and extent of Terra Australis, than with any other land, and... | |
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... earth, is unquestionably due to the Dutch; for, although some part of the northern coast may have been seen by the early navigators of Spain and Portugal, there is no direct testimony in favour of such discovery. There are two charts in the British... 