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South Sea

I cannot help wondering that we have not yet seen the land it is however some pleasure to be able to disprove that which does not exist but in the opinions of Theoretical writers of which sort most are who have wrote any thing about these seas without having themselves been in them they have generaly supposd that every foot of sea which they beleivd no ship had passd over to be land tho they had little or nothing to support that opinion but vague reports many of them mentiond only as such by the very authors who first publishd them as for instance the orange tree one of the Nassau fleet who being separated from her Companions & drove to the westward reported on her joining them again that she had twice seen the Southern continent both which places are laid down by Mr Dalrymple many degrees to the eastward of our track tho it is probable that he has put them down as far to the westward as he thought it possible that she could go

To strenghen these weak arguments another Theory has been started which says that it is
 

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