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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 S 6 i i REMARKS, In Support of the NEW CHART o F NORTH and SOUTH AM E R I C As I N SIX SHEETS. By y. GREEN, Efq; LONDON: Printed for Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to his Royal HighneCs the Prince of W A L E S, at the Corner of St. Ma ■tin'S'Lam, near Cifarwg' Crofs, MDCCLIII. .^- JL V ",• / • i « • \. .' , c (i) ADVERTISEMENT. AS I had not the Good- kick to receive Mr. BeUbi^s Co. (5lion of his Me- moirs, be:ore my Rv marks on the Chart o^ America were finillied ; fo the Poflfcripr thereto, containing Reflexions on Meflieurs Bnachc^ and 7)c' L IJle*^ Map of \}\z Countries to the North of the South Sea, was priiittd-off he tore I had a Sight ot th; Explanation *, which accompanied it : For as this Map, which came Poll Irom Paris, was lent wirhnur the Kvphn.itinn, I rherelore conckided that it had been publifhed without any ; and it was by great Accident that I came to know there wis one, before the prefent Memoir, then ready for Fubhcation, was expofed to Sals. But now thir I have Il-en Mr. De VlfJ% Exflanatk}!, I find nothing in it which may ob!:ge mr to rerrafl the leaft Tittle of what I have advanced in the Poftlcripr. F::r from explaining, as by the Title might have betn expeded, what concerns the Difcoveries afcribed to Admiral De Fonte, we are referred for his Vouchers to a labfequent Memoir \ and there i-. not the kaft Mention made ot the vaft Ini.nd-Sea, wluch takes-up fo much Room in his Map. Kowever, Mr. De Ulfie hasinfcred one Authority in his Exrlanation, whxh mufl go flir- ther in deciding the Matters in quclHon, than all othns which he may be able to produce : inrca!i:y the only Tiling which can decide them ; and that is the Letter afcnbed to Be Fonte, containing a Rch'.tion or Joiirnal of the Voyarre it- fclf, tranflaieJ f'rcm an EngUJJj Manilcript Copy, tranfmittcd to him^from Lcrdrn thirteen Years ago. _ Wh.tl charg.- in the Fcllfcript is, th::t Mr. Be VJJle has placed the Difcove- ries afcribed to Di Foyite, \o De<;rrees mrr - North than he ought to have done, in confequrnce of p-Acing Rio del Keycs, or de los Reyes, in Latitude 63, inftead' of 53. Now,as:h-: fir.^Ie Point in qucition is, whedv-r Mr, Be L'JJIe has pliced that River contormabic to the Journal or nor, I turned to De Fo^ite's Letter, to Ice what Situation v. as given th^rein to the Rio de los Reyes ; and was furprifed to find it marked 63 -. 1 concluded then, that the Error had been owing to th^. Copifl, or TranOator, punirg one Figure for au'^ther ; and began to blame n.yfclfVor having too-nafify charged Mr. De U I/Ie vAth placing that River in Latitude 6^, con-rary to the Journal : which I did, by taking it for granrai, that re was pof- feffcd of the original i:^;^/.//2; Tranflation inferred in tht Memo ir s f on be Curious, for * Explication ct Iz Carte dc3 N uvelles De- Profefll'ur de Alathematiques au Colle-re Roval cnuvertes :;u i- tJ ii b. Me- 'nd. r:.r M. Puns 17:- " ^ / V DeUIfe^Q i"Acyit2.i£ RoyaleJt- Sciences, & f Explicat. p. 14, 1 '. % 4pril ( ii) _ /Ipril and Juiiij 170;*) : For however falft^ly Ve route's Difcoverlcs mny be rcpri,:- fented in thc\T.ip, in crni'qienccof that Error ; yet fuppofing it to h;r v b.-. a originally in Mr, D;' LV/Zt's MS. he c^ul I not juftlv be accufed of deviating from the Journal, fincc he adted ronfornuble ro rhe Copy which he had of it. Meantime, a"-, in comparing the Figures in the Pige one with another, I per- ceived that the 6 in 6'^ had not the Appearance of other Sixes, cither in the Shape or Situation, I begun to inlpedta litth: nearer into the Matier •, and on Ex- amination found, that the 17umber had been acftually printed off 53, and ;he 5 changedafterwardsinto a 6 wirh the Pen. This, ahho' dextroufly managed in the Copy before me, will readily appear on obfcrving the great DifTimilitude be- tween the 6 in 6:^, and the 3 Sixes in the Lines immediately above and under- neath i and how eafily the /: in 456, thiee Lines below, may be convened inio fuch a 6 as is found in 63. As a hirtWer Proof, the Body of that 6 hangs below the Line, in the fame Manner as does the Tail of the 5, out of which ic is made, contrary to the Difpofuion of the other Sixes; and indeed to the Nature of the Types, which will not in the ordinary W.iy ofcompofing admit of fuch a Pufition. Hence then It appear?, that the Latitude of Rio del Reyes was fet-down 53 in the tranfmitted MS. and that, altho* Mr. De VJjle affirms, Page 3, that he has given the Journal as he received it, yet he has corrupted it to ferve liis Purpoies. In like manner as Rio del Reyes is in his Map placed in 6-^ Degrees of Lati- tude, according to that Corruption ; it is alfo evident, that he has given to ir, and in confequence thereof to the Lakes and Rivers mentioned in De Forte's Voyage, a Situation too Northerly, by 10 Deg: jcs •, diredly contrary to the ex- prels Letter of the Relation, as well as Dcfign of the Voyage, conformable to my Charge. Notwithllanding which Mr. De L'//7(? declares no lefs than twice*, in \\\% Explanation, thit on comparing Dq Fontt' s Relation y with the Voyages of the Ruffians y he and Mr. Buache were fiirprized at the Conformity which they found be- tween them: whereas it is demonftrable from the Premifes, that the Voyage is ex- hibited quite contrary to the Journal, in almoll every Paiticular, as I alledge in the Poftfcripc -, and that the Confonnity, if any, was of their own contriving, nor did exift till the Alteration was m.adcin the Figures, after the Sheet had been aftualiy printed- off in French', fo that the Relations in queftion were fo far from corrcfponding when thofe Gentlemen ftrll compared them, that in all Probability the Map itfelf was engraved bffore the Change of the Figure 5 into 6, on which the pretended Conformity depended, did at all tike place. However that be, it fcems r^al Matter of Surprize, t!i3t two Pcrfons of Mr. De L'lflc^s and Buache\b"\(j,ure in Litcrat.ire, fhould undertake to make fuch an Alteration in the Journal, without acquainting the Public, and affigning their Reafons •, and yet more fo, that they fliould venture to make that Altera- tion in the printed Page, as if they thought it would never be taken notice of, or rather did noL regard a Detedion. * P. 3 and 10. n J Ti.s ■ \ w ( 111 ) 'Th true, as tlryliaJ exhibited De Fonte\ Difcoveries In their Mip contrary to the Journal, if (he Number 53 h.iti appeared in thtj Explanation, it would not o'.iy ha/e contra. lictcJ \.\\-xi lurt^rijing Conformity, wiiich Mr. Be U Ijlc had before hoalted of, b.,t indeed have contradidlcd the Map itfeif, and fo overthrown their whole Scheme: tiierefore, as they had ne; l.'acd to make the Alteration in either the /r^wf/^Trandanon, or the Proof at i'rcfs, they found thetnfclves un- der a Neccflity of doing it in the printed Page. It is lucky for us, that they did not chufeto reprint the Leaf; for if they had taken that Precaution, it mighi. have produced a Controvcrfy, which could not have been determined fo cafily in OuT Favour. 1 fhall only add farther, that this Piece of Legerdemain, (to give it no worfe a Namej confirms what on other Grounds I have faid, p. 47, in the Poftfcripc: that Mufieurs BeUJJle and Bnache gave no Credit to the Journal, and were con- fcious the Difcoveries ufcribed to De Fonle were fpurious, at the fame Time they adopted them. And indeed Mr. Z)^ L'y^/V acknowledges, p. 3, of his Expla- nation, that the journal contains fevcral Things, which might call its Authority in quellion : But the ExtracT: from the Registers of the Academy of Sciences, at the End thereof, fpeaks Hill more fuipicioufly in thefe Terms, tht Things con^ tained in this Relation are of great Importance^ provided it he authentic. For all i\mM^. De V IJIe thinks it jnay be genuine, becaufe Mr. Ellis, (Author of Captain yV/(7m''s Voyage to Hudfon'sBay, in 1747) thinks itfo*;and becaufe Mr. Ellis thinks fo, he concludes, that the Englijh in general are of the fame Opini- on, It is thus Mr. De L'l/Je creates to himiUnmaginary Motives of Credibility, tor want of real ones; and thefe Motives, however infignific, nr, arc the only Authority which he has now to reft-on for the Veracity of the Journal, fince the furprijlng Coniormky of \t with the RuJ/ian Informations has been proved to be fiditious. I could back this Proof with (till ilronger Evidence, drawn from the Extent, as well as Situation, given by Memeurs De UlJJe and Btiacbe, to the 'L'xktiValafto : for, to force a Conformity, and conned De Fonte*s with the Ruffian Difcoveries, they not only have i)laced it many Degrees out of its Latitude, in common with the other Difcoveries -, but, by miffaking or corrupting the obvious Meaning of the Journal, have affigned it moft extravagant Dimenfions. But of this enough at prtknt. On the whole, as Mr, De L' T^c's prom i fed Proofs and Arguments in fupport of his Map, fo far as concern De Fonte\ Difcoveries, are drawn from the RuJJian InturmatJons above-mentioned ; confcqucntly they can be of no^vail to him. *It would have been more to Mr. De U Ij7.:\ Piirpofe to li;i\v quoted the Author of Captain Sf;;ii/.>'s \''oyage ' "adc in Company w ith Cap- tain AIo:,re) who has publiflied Dc Fonte's I r- ter, v.ith a large Comment, vvlicrcin its greateit Abiurdities arc vindicj.:cd in a very extraordi. nary Manner. For Inllance, A'ol. If. p. 327, he ancrts, that ths finding a Fcrj'cn ever Land, in Latitude 79, to the Head of Davis's Straits, carries not the leajl Air of hrprobabilit^i nvith it : altl.o', from what I have ohierved iii the Poft- Itript/uch ajournw-y fcvin.--. utterly impracticable. on (I « IV ) on this Occafion, fincc they can never reconcile it with either the Journal or Dc- fi:.!,n, of flic Voya(j;c.'. However, in cafe when they appear, they fhould contain any thing material, tending to juftily the Situation {2;iven in his Map tutliofc Dif- covcries, I fliall readily allow them nil which can be fairly allcdgcd in their Favour, To conclude, the Facls above fet-foith are of fuch an extraordinary Nature, that, fOi the Credit ol the Parties concerned, lor whole Merits I have a very great EO-eem, 1 Ihould have been filent •, i: the Security ol Navigation, the Welfare of Geography, and my own JuRification, three very important Moiives, did not oblige me to take notice ot them. N. B. TheCoafls of Anierka, as exhibited in the firfl: and third Sheets, vary in feveral Kjipecb, from the Account which is given of them, p. 22 and 25, oc- cafioned by theAlterations inlerted from Mr. Dc L'Jjlc's. Map.fince the Remarks were printed. The Reader is defired alfo to corre(ft the following Millakes omit- ted in the Errata. Page 23, Line 15, for 47, read ^y ; alfo the lad line but two, after Coa/l, read, iillbe came to 79 Degrees. P. 24, 1. 6, for 6^^ r, 53, p. 26, I. 32, after waSi r. io have been, 1. 4.2, after nrCi r. to he its anctcut Boundaries ; thefe were P. 31, lafl: Line but two, {or Print, r. Point. P. 33, 1. 12, \ov cxatlly\ v. very zvcil. P. 46, laft Line but one, for Nor/hzvtird, r. TVeJlzvard. P. 47, 1. 20, for hlmfelj\ read his Brother. Lalt Line but two, after BcVIjlcy T. Be la Croycre. /*. i'. Since the above Advertlfoment was printed, the Royal Society have recovered from Mr. Ds L Ijle, the Specimen of a New Map, fent by Poll from Paris, the 30th of No-vember lall, %vhe<-ein the Difcovtrics afciibed to Dr- Fontc, and hi-; Captains, are reprefentcd more conform- abh; to the journal than in that publiihed by him, and Mr. Buache, in Jutie before. In the ii.xpiar.ation alfo, which came along with it, the Latitude of Rio del Reyes, appears to be 53 De',,nees, as it was printed off: So that the Corruption of the Figure 5 into 6, is tacitly con- fcfied ; and all the Objtflionr,, which, in Confequence thereof, 1 have made to the former Map, r.re ailo'.vcd ro be jvill. Mr. De Vljle to excufe himfelf, pretends, that Mr. Buache, who drew thefirltMr.p, hr^d departed from his Inftrudions : But, whether this be really the Fadl; ? If Faft, iiow it came to be 5 or 6 Months, before Mr. 7)^ L'^.reftify'd, gave Notice of, or perhaps found out fuch enormous Deviations ? Which of the two Maps In (^ellion, was the Map by him laid before the Royal Academy of Sciences In Jpiil 1750? And how far the pretended Dlfcoveries of Dc fontc, iiill are from being exhibited in his New-Map, according either to De Fontei Jour- nal, or his own Memoircs ? mull be the Subjcdt of another Enquiry. "'"■"*"■ *"°'*''>" REMARKS. REMARKS In Support of the New Chart oi AMERICA In Six Sheets. I INTRODUCTION. I Brttxfi Navigators. In making this Chart I confulted a great Num- H E Englijlj Charts of Ammca, being for the general very incorredl, I came to a RefoliUion to publifh fome New ones for the Ufe of ber of other Charts, as well as Voyages antient and modern, foreign and domeftic ; Among the former, I particularly had an Eye to thofe of Mr. BelUn, the French Hydrographer, as they are the lateft and moft in Vogue at pre fen t. The French have long engrofled the Care of Geography to themfelves, and it mull be confefled have brought it to greater perfedion than any Nation in Europe. This is owing to the proper Encouragement which its Profeflbrs Cnever fo numerous as at this Time) meet with in France : a Country fo fruitful of Patrons for tk Sciences. And indeed, without the Patronage of the Rich and Great, it ii hardly pomble,that the Sciences Ihould ever thrive much in any Place; unlefs they who apply themfdves to fuch Studies were all Men of Fortune, or at leaft in eafy Circumftances, to purfue them at leifure, which rarely happens to be the Cafe. Our Neighbours are particularly zealous for the Advancement of Geography, not only on Account ol its Ufe for underftandingHiftory j but aifo, as they confider Its Improvement of the greateft Importance to Trade, by the Security which it gives to Navigation. However it muft not be thought that the French are' the only People capable of improving the Sciences. It will appear from our Remarks, that the moft important Corredions which we have made have been owing to the Journals and Obfervations of i?;/^/7> Navigators ; and it is hoped this Performance will Ihew that we are as able to reform Hydrography, as they J provided any tolerable Encouragement was given to Artifts : for want of which. Chart as well as Map-making, is fallen into the Hands oi the Engravers, whofe Ski 1 confifts in fupplying the Print-felkrs with their Produftiors in the moft expeditious Manner, and at the loweft Rates. But to return to Mr. Beltin: This Gentleman is at the Head of an Office in the French Marine^ for depofiting Charts and Plans, to be made ufe of for tiie Benefit of Navigation : a Regulation proper to be eftablifhed in every Maritime, Trading E Nation *. (4 ) N.ition *. The Count dc Maurefas^ being at the Head of the Marine, about the Yf.ir 1737; to remove the Complaints which at that Jiindurc lay againd the French Charts, and provide an accurate Sett, for the Ull- of the King's Ships, tr'fred Mr. BcU'in to undertake that Tafk, and pubiilTi by Degrees a Sett ot" New Chirrs, tor all Parts ol die Ocean : Which T.ifk he has at length in a great Me^fvirc pertormed. The Chatts of his whicii we fliall refer to in this Memoir, are his Chart of the IFcJern Oreafi, puIiIiOicd in 17.^8. It contains all the Eafl Coaft of N''ith-/hnericn^ from the Strt:i;;hts of Bell-IJIcy between Labrador and Ncw- ffAindlauil^ wirh part of ihe North and Eaft Coaftof South-Amcrkay as fur as the Line: \V\^ C\\:\\i o'i x\vj Ihculhcrn-Oceany in 1739, which includes the remain- der of the Eallern Coafl of S'Jtith- America^ to Cape Horn : His Chart of tlio S-uib-Sc'i^ in I 741: His Charr of the (7;.'///^ of A/zx/Vo, 1749: His Map of the Wdrlil, i:i 174/, wh th comprifes all /^wcf/vVrt in fmall ; and his Chait of the North Scis^ in 1750. As Mr. BcUin is in roffefTion of fuch confulerable Helps -, and many Obfer- vitions, of the Longitude, ai well as Latitude, have bei.n made on the Coift^ of ////if/itV7, dpecialiy on t'lc Eall-fKie of the Northern Peninfula^ and WMt f]clc < f the Sou hern, J imagined that I fliould have had very few Altera- tions to make in hi. Char s, excepting in thofe P.uts relating to the Briti/h Do- minions i with T' fpe6l to which it may be preiumcd, that we have mo-e accurate MaCrials th.ui tlr/ French can well be M.;ltersof : But when I came to examine th." orhi r Coafts, I was furprized to find that Mr. Belliti had committed very grofs Millakc , partly l)y relyirg on certain Obfervations of the Longitude, ' dch at b ft we-e very doubtful, and wanted to be verify'd j partly by depending on er- ron. O' s Charts, made by former Geographers, without giving them a due Ex- amination i and partly, by either rejecting the accurate Journals of eminent Navi^'aors, or elfe unreafonab'y ftraining them, in Favour of his own Ideas, and tiie doubttul Obft rvatiors before meit.oned. This is the Condi inn in which I found Mr. Bellhi's Charts : Nor did the Mat- ter appear to be n.enaed by Mr. Byouckner^ who in 1749 publifhed a general Chart of the Sea-Coafls throughout the World, at Berlin^ in Twelve Sheets, un- der the Patr; nage and at theExpence of the late General Smeilazv. For that Hydo- graphcr, after unproving the Coafts of Siberia from the RiiJJian Difcoveries, has dene little elfe, fo far a« relates to America^ than copy'd Mr. Bcllin. Such great Im- perfedtions difcovered in our latell and moft cryed up Performances, made me re- iolve to purfuc my Defign, left the Ufc of thefe erroneous Charts, being introdu- cd among cur Navi^atois, might be attended with ill Coiifcquences to the Brilijh Navigation. In drawing Charts fome Imagine that Charts only fhould be confulted : As I am of a differenL Opinion, 1 had recourfc alfo to the Maps i and muft fay in Praife • Mr. Pf/liti on this Occafion obfervcs, in the I'lc'tui'i.- to luj Calleiiku tf Memoin (which did not coine to Hand till thcle Reiiiarks were finifhed) 1 kat it is ciiffuult to correSi the Charts tffe:iuatly, fince it requires extraordinary Htips, •t^t o/lt^K fo'\\;er cf a piivi.te Man te procure, and IV hid thofe only ivho are at the Head of Jf- fairs are able to pro'vide. He adds, That then is no pnffshility cf colleiling all the Materials ne- teffary for fuch a Defign, but by sftablifhing an Offitefur thePurpcfe, like that of ChartSy Plans, and Journal!, btlonging to the Marine, 1 ( ; ) of thofe publifhed by Mr. D'Anvillcy at the Expencc of rhc late Duke o^Orkmis *, Tiuit the Coafts of ////j(?mrt arc laid down in his Maps more exactly, t>jr the life of Navigaiion, than in any of the Charts. For although thit eminent Ci. ogra- pher tMth in common with others committid fomel'lrrorsin the I\arts inchidcii in the J9n/j/7j Difcoveries about ^.•'^/'jZfrtv and Dav'n\-Slreii^hts ; yec he has every where ilfc avoided all thofe grols Errors to be found in Mr. Bei'in's Ch.irts, iiom which his differ almofl as much ns mine. This great Uifagrcement air.oii!?; the Charts is owing principally to the Gcop,raphcrs being oblig'-d to havt- recount to Nautical Ellimations of the Bearings and Diftances fwhich in their Nature: are very uncertain, often imperfecfl) to adjud: the Pofitions of mod: Places on the Coalts ihrougliout the Globe, for want Of a fufFicient Number cf arcunt.- Agro- nomical Obfervations, which only are capable of eiVcding that moment )us End to any Degree of Certainty. On the other Hand, if our Materials be ever fo exa.fl, yet the Accuracy n-jcef- fary for Navigation will be wanting, unlcfs a proper Projcdion be ciiolen. In Drawi'^g this c;1i