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of the (b) marked with accuracy

(b) Furthermore, Dom Pernetty doubted for some time whether these Islands, which he recognized, were truly the Sebald Islands The Sebald Islands (or Sebald de Weert Islands) are a small group of islands at the northwestern tip of the Falklands, named after the Dutch explorer who sighted them in 1600. from Frézier's Map; here is what he says about it in a note in the Preliminary Discourse of the first edition.
"We discovered three Islands about half a league long, quite elevated, and placed roughly in a triangle, as the Sebald Islands are said to be. This resemblance of position and shape made us take them for them at first; but then having discovered near them some flat Islands almost at water level, we judged that these three Islands were not the Sebalds, but Islands slightly forward from the Great Malouine The French name for the Falkland Islands, derived from the sailors of Saint-Malo., and we had reason to be confirmed in this opinion. If these three Islands were indeed the Sebalds, they would be only two leagues away from the great Island, and not 7 to 8, as Frézier says. See the Map of our route along the coast. However, in the two voyages of the Aigle and the King's store-ship the Etoile, which surveyed these three islands after us while going from the Malouine Islands to the Strait of Magellan, the Captains, having found no other islands

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in the beautiful Map of the Strait of Magellan, drawn by Mr. de Vaugondy Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723–1786), a leading French geographer and hydrographer., for the understanding of the history of the Southern Lands.

Admiral Roggeveen Jacob Roggeveen (1659–1729), the Dutch explorer who also discovered Easter Island. appears to be one of the Navigators who, before Dom Pernetty, shed the most light on the true position of the Malouine Islands (c); he recognized that what had been taken for a vast continent was only a large Island of about two hundred leagues in

(c) His voyage was written in French by a German, embarked on his fleet, and was printed at The Hague in 1739, in 2 volumes in-duodecimo A book size where the sheet is folded into twelve leaves.. The fleet he commanded was destined by the Dutch East India Company for the discovery of the Southern World. Roggeveen's voyage is perhaps the most curious of all those undertaken to survey this third Continent.

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