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janua^ry. appears-alfo by both accounts, that the weather prevented
v— |— ' his going on fhore, and that he fleered from it W .S .W. till
he came into latitudehfi.y-three.: there cantherefore be little
doubt but that Cowley gave the name o f Pepys’s Ifland after
he came home, to what he really fuppofed to be the ifland
o f Sebald de Wert, for which it is not difficult to aflignfeve-
ral reafons; and though the fuppofition of. a miftake o f the
figures does not .appear to he well grounded, yet, there
being no land in forty-feven, the evidence that what Cowley
faw was Falkland’s Iflands, is very ftrong. The defcriprion
of the country agrees in almoft every particular, and even
the map is o f the fame general figure, with a ffreight running
up the middle. The chart o f Falkland’s that accompanies
this narrative, was laid down from the journals and
drawings o f Captain Macbride, who was difpatched thither
after my return, and circumnavigated the whole coaft: the
two principal iflands were probably called Falkland’s Iflands
by Strong, about the year 1689, as he is known to have
given the name o f Falkland’s Sound to part o f the Streight
■ which divides them. The journal of this navigator is
ilill unprinted in the Britifh Mufieum. The firft who faw
thefe iflands is fuppofed to be Captain Davies, the afiociate
o f Cavendiffi, in 1692. In 1594, Sir Richard Hawkins faw
land, fuppofed to be the fame, and in honour o f his miftrefs,
Queen Elizabeth, called them H awkins’s Maiden L and.
Long afterwards, they were feen by fome French fliips from
Saint Maloes, and Frezier, probably for that reafon, called
them the Malouins, a name which has been fince adopted
by the Spaniards.
Sunday 2y. Having continued in the harbour which I had called Port
Egmont till Sunday the 27th o f January, we failed again at
eight o’clock in the morning with the wind at StS. W .; but
we
we were fcarcely got out of the Port before it began to blow i?6j.
very hard, and the weather became fo thick that we could " r' ■
not fee the rocky iflands." I now moll heartily wifhed my- Su”day 4'
felfi again at anchor in the harbour we had quitted; but in
a fhort time we had the fatisfadtion to fee the weather become
clear, though it continued to blow very hard the whole
day. At nine the entrance o f Port Egmont harbour bore
E. S. E. diftant two leagues » the two low iflands to the northward
E. by N. diftant between three and four miles ; and the
Rocky ifland W. 4 N. diftant four leagues. At ten the two
low iflands bore S. S. E. diftant four or five miles ; and we
then fleered along the fhore eaft by the compafs, and after
having run about five leagues, we faw a remarkable headland,
with a rock at a little diftance from it, bearing E.S. E..
J E. diftant three leagues. This head-land I called C ape
T amar-. Having continued the fame courfe five leagues
farther, we faw a rock about five miles from the main bearing.
N. E. at the diftance o f four or five leagues : this rock I-
called the Edistone, and. then fleered between it and a re-
markable-head-land which F called Cape Dolphin, in the
direftion of E. N. E. five leagues farther. From Cape Tamar
to Cape Dolphin, a diftance o f about eight leagues, the land
forms, what I thought, a deep found, and called Carlisle
Sound, But what has fince appeared to be the northern
entrance o f the Streight between the two principal iflands.
In the part that F fuppofed- to be the bottom of the found,
we faw an opening, which had the appearance o f a harbour.
From Cape Dolphin we fleered along the fhore E. 4 N. fixteen
leagues, to a low flat cape or head-land, and then brought
to. In this day’s run the land, for the mod part, refembled
the eaft fide o f the coaft o f Patagonia, not having fo much
as a fingle tree, or even a bufh, being all downs, with here
and there a few of the high tufts o f grafs that we had feen
at