 | William Dampier - Buccaneers - 1699 - 592 pages
...Ground. New Holland is a very large trad of Land. It is not yet determined whether it is an Ifland or a main Continent ; but I am certain that it joyns neither to Afia-, Africa, nor America. This part of it that we faw is all low even Land, with fandy Banks againfl... | |
 | William Dampier - Australia - 1703 - 774 pages
...Groud. New Holland is a very large Traft of Land. It is not yet determined whether it is an Ifland or a main Continent -, but I am certain that it joyns neither to A$a, Africa^ nor America. This part of it that we (aw is all low even Land, with fandy Banks againft... | |
 | Richard Henry Major - Australia - 1859 - 356 pages
...1688, two miles from the shore, in twenty-nine fathom, good hard sand and clean ground. New Holland is a very large tract of land. It is not yet determined...certain that it joyns neither to Asia, Africa, nor America. This part of it that we saw is all low even land, with sandy banks against the sea, only the... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...two miles from the shore, in twenty-nine fathoms, good hard sand and clean ground. " New Holland is a very large tract of land. It is not yet determined...island or a main continent; but I am certain that it joins neither to Asia, Africa, nor America, This part of it that we saw is all low even land, with... | |
 | David Laing Purves - Discoveries in geography - 1874 - 856 pages
...two miles from the shore, in twenty -nine fathoms, good bard sand, and clean ground. New Holland is a very large tract of land. It is not yet determined...island or a main continent ; but I am certain that it joins neither to Asia, Africa, nor America. This part of it that we saw is all low even land, with... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 428 pages
...with the coast of Australia or New Holland, in lat. 16° 50' S. "New Holland," writes Dampier, " is a very large tract of land. It is not yet determined...island or a main continent : but I am certain that it joins neither to Asia, Africa, nor America." He describes the inhabitants, with little exaggeration,... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Australia, Northern - 1889 - 210 pages
...chase, or the languor and listlessness of a long spell of tropical calm. " New Holland," he says, " is a very large tract of land. It is not yet determined...continent ; but I am certain that it joyns neither to Africa, Asia, or America." Why he is certain he does not tell us, but he is too sagacious to err, though... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1889 - 244 pages
...chase, or the languor and listlessness of a long spell of tropical calm. "New Holland," he says, "is a very large tract of land. It is not yet determined...continent; but I am certain that it joyns neither to Africa, Asia, or America." Why he is certain he does not tell us, but he is too sagacious to err, though... | |
 | Edward Jenks - 1895 - 396 pages
...the most elementary facts concerning Australia were yet unknown. Dampier says : — " New Holland is a very large Tract of Land. It is not yet determined...certain that it joyns neither to Asia, Africa, nor America." At the beginning of the year 1699, Dampier set out from England in command of the Roebuck,... | |
 | Louis Becke, Walter Jeffery - Australia - 1899 - 384 pages
...gives an accurate description of the country so far as he saw it, and asserts that "New Holland is a very large tract of land. It is not yet determined...island or a main continent ; but I am certain that it joins neither Asia, Africa, nor America." While the ship was being overhauled under the sweltering... | |
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New Holland is a very, large tract of land. It is not yet determined whether it is an island or a main continent; but I am certain that it joins neither to Asia, Africa, nor America. 
