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«770. fpace, I think it would be pity to leave that any longer un-
- _ ■ examined, efpecially as the voyage may turn to good ac-
count, befides determining the principal queftion, if no continent
fhould be found, by the difcovery of new iflands in
the Tropical regions, of which there is probably a great
number, that no European veflel has ever yet vifited. Tupia
from time to time gave us an account of about one hundred
and thirty, and in a chart drawn by his own hand, he actually
laid down no lefs than feventy-four.
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