4 AUSTRAL A*SIA. $7
B'afs’ s'ftrait.
' .Iri .the fubfequent brief defcription o f thefe extenfive countries, the
populaf n^mès(- mirft be . accepted, however capricious or obieftionable
they may appear. ■ .. f. , s. q. ■ •
fi *•*'» ^ I*, * N ew H o l l a n s .
f P f ïuppofe4bat,tKs extenfivedfe’gidb, when more thoröughly in-
V^fgated, w’llf ^ folfhd to^ooTift Jrfkkifè vaft iïMdsji
in#ffoaed^y narrowfeas,- an /idea which pfdiably arifes frH&''tbe'dif~
èÖVèf^’-th'afcrNew Zealand - qpnfffts-'d^twp dflandSj.aridp^otiifer new'
ftfaits havefbbfen fouiid to divide lands in this quarter, formerlyfuppofed
tÊ belco.ntipji&us. . But on the .other .hand, Papua- or New.jQuinar has
bëériTtcêndyMcertained to he continuous fofmërf^lffdhght
t§„*M jw jS ve ®raits having been found tb ;hfej merë inïel^ Aod haysi
Howèver this be, the moft recent and adthèntitf^harts indicate. New
Höllafed as a country fully, entitled to- -the'appeilatidA of a continent.
^^•|ePS*-h from E* to p% ^ a b o d |^ degrees' ’of Jddgithdetfn the "medial,
latitjude, df 25°, that is about 2340 g. njfleV,"pr :2730|Britilh. ' The
brdadth from N. td S. extends from u * to.’: 39^ being && degrees,
of\ r? 6° BritifhT Europe, the fmalleffofthe kM ént!,ëpa^
tinents, isrfuppofed'to hp about 3300 B v^Je^mits utmod: lenftb, and
its greateft breadth fo rtiat Mr. Pennant rather exaggerates .when.
lfeJ affifdHateFthé of Europe'ah'd Notafia, the’latter being afcfuarter
leSAhan/the former. 'But the proximity piany; large-iflands recoriipehfes;
this defeft; arid the 'whole of Auftralafia will probably be
fQund,greatly to exceed the European .continent. It muft at the fame
time -be-remembered that New Hplland may be difcovered to confift’ of
twów more irnmënfe iflands, fo that AuftraJafitfis- ntrf admitted ” as a
new,continent, but merely as a new divifipn of thW o b e ; in which
v-iew this and Tolynefia may be termed maritime divifions, while the'
iQhri ancient.quarters: are ftridtly terrene.
I . ' I p .2. ' f . - - 8
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