T O T H E
K I N G .
S I K,,
A F T E R the great improvements that
have been made in Navigation fince the
difcovery of America, it may well be thought
ftrange that a very confiderable part of the
globe on which we live fiiould ftill have remained
unknown ; that it ftiould ftill have been the
fubje£t of {peculation, whether a great portion
o f the Southern Hemilphere is land or water $
and, even where land had been difcovered, that
A a neither
