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Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia: / A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.

Chapter 1: EARLY VOYAGES TO TERRA AUSTRALIS, NOW CALLED AUSTRALIA.
By Richard Henry Major
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The volume assembles translated documents, manuscript-map extracts, official reports, voyage journals, and shipwreck narratives that record early European contact with the southern continent prior to Cook. An editor’s introduction contextualizes cartographic evidence and documentary gaps, and the selections present navigators’ observations of coasts, search and rescue expeditions, and successive coastal surveys, accompanied by contemporary maps and binding instructions. The material exposes uncertainties in attribution, instances of concealment or lost records, and evolving geographic knowledge as crews charted and revisited the island and adjacent lands. Readers are offered primary-source testimony illustrating how seafaring reports, maps, and administrative dispatches combined to shape early understandings of the region’s coastline.

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Title: Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia

Author: Richard Henry Major

Release date: February 22, 2019 [eBook #58933]

Language: English

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WORKS ISSUED BY
EARLY VOYAGES TO TERRA AUSTRALIS, NOW CALLED AUSTRALIA.
M DCCC.LIX.

EARLY VOYAGES
TO
TERRA AUSTRALIS,
NOW CALLED
AUSTRALIA:
A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS, AND EXTRACTS FROM EARLY MANUSCRIPT MAPS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERY ON THE COASTS OF THAT VAST ISLAND, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE TIME OF CAPTAIN COOK.

Edited, with an Introduction, by
R. H. MAJOR, Esq., F.S.A.
“Austrinis pars est habitabilis oris,
Sub pedibusque jacet nostris.”
Manilius, Astronomicon, lib. i, lin. 237–8.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
M.DCCC.LIX.
LONDON:
T. RICHARDS, 37, GREAT QUEEN STREET.
THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., D.C.L., Corr. Mem. Inst. F., Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. Sc. St. Petersburg, &c., &c., President.
The MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE. } Vice-Presidents.
 
Rear-Admiral C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B.
     
JOHN BARROW, Esq.    
     
Rt. Hon. LORD BROUGHTON.    
     
The LORD ALFRED SPENCER CHURCHILL.    
     
CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, Esq., F.S.A.    
     
Rt. Hon. Sir DAVID DUNDAS.    
     
Sir HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S.    
     
JOHN FORSTER, Esq.    
     
Lieut.-Gen. CHARLES RICHARD FOX.    
     
R. W. GREY, Esq., M.P.    
     
EGERTON HARCOURT, Esq.    
     
JOHN WINTER JONES, Esq., F.S.A.    
     
His Excellency the COUNT DE LAVRADIO.    
     
R. H. MAJOR, Esq., F.S.A.    
     
The EARL OF SHEFFIELD.    
     
Rt. Hon. LORD TAUNTON.    
CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, Esq., Honorary Secretary.
TO
SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON,
G.C.St.S., D.C.L., F.R.S.,
ETC., ETC., ETC.
Dear Sir Roderick,

You have kindly permitted me to dedicate to you this result of my investigations respecting the early explorations of Australia. To none can a book on such a subject be more appropriately offered than to yourself. To you geographers are pre-eminently indebted for the promotion of Australian exploration in recent times, while your ever-memorable scientific anticipation of the discovery of the Australian gold fields must connect your name inseparably with the history of a country, whose future greatness can be foreseen, but cannot be estimated.

I remain,
Dear Sir Roderick,
With much respect,
Yours very faithfully,
R. H. Major.
British Museum,
August, 1859.