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Title: The great probability of a North West Passage: deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima on the discovery of a communication between the South Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Proving the authenticity of the Admiral's letter
Year: 1768 (1760s)
Authors: Drage, Theodorus Swaine, 1712 (ca.)-1774, supposed author Swaine, Charles, fl. 1746-1766, supposed author
Subjects: Fuentes, Bartolomé de, 17th cent
Publisher: London, Printed for T. Jefferys
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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in which the Errors of Torquemada\ Map,as to the Situation of Newfoundland, and the Places to Northward arecorrefted •, yet great Errors are committed as to the Parts to Weftwardof America, making eighty-five Degrees of Longitude between Cape St.Lucas and the Extremity of the Land to Weftward and Northward inLat. 42 -, and ninety-five Degrees between Cape St. Lucas and the Ex-tremity of the Land neareft to Afia. The Reafon of this Difference isplain, they both err with refped to thofe Parts, of which they had notauthenticated Accounts. Cortez wrote to the Emperor that he had fent People on Dilco-very, both by Land and Water, it was not defigned that their Dif-coveries Ihould be communicated, as Cortez intended to turn themto his own private Advantage. But when Mendoza fitted out two Ar-maments, one by Land under the Command of Coronado, and theother by Sea under Alarcon; Alarcon was ordered to Latitude ^^, tojoin the Land Forces, and to make a Survey of the Coaft, and fee if tl^ere
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The Origr Xjrqucmattas ^lONARQUIA IN DIAN A . Fi^/A —- ( 86 ) iCoinara mentions thefe IflandsJiad not been long tUfcovered. It is ap-, parent from the iVIap, that they hid a .very imperfeft Account of thefeDifcoveries, which were made by Frcbijher and Davis, who aUb were farfrom being exad in their Computations of the Longitude. In this Map prefixed to Torquemadas Work, and here annexed, theScn.ithern Part of Newfoundlajid-hhld down in Lat. §^, nineDegrees more.to theNorthv/ard than it ought tobe, for. which Reafon the Labrador,Creeii--hmd, and Iceland, are placed much.further to Northward than they ought, to be placed, and are made to extend beyond the Polar Circle. It is fromthis Suppofition oi Newfoundland being in fo high a Latitude i\\2it Acojlafays, the Streight of Anion takes its Courfe through the Northern Re-gion under the Polar Circle towards Greenland and Iceland. In the fameMap the extremeil Point of California, anfwerable to Cape St. Lucas, islaid down in Longitude 105

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