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NOTICES OF A SECOND VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY BY TASMAN. -- OF THE AMSTERDAM STADT-HOUSE MAP OF THE WORLD; AND OF THE NAMES HOLLANDIA NOVA AND ZEELANDIA NOVA.
We shall conclude this series of the expeditions for discovery undertaken by the Hollanders during the Presidentship at _Batavia_ of Antony Van Diemen, with the notice of a second voyage made by Abel Jansen Tasman. This is one of those of which only a faint remembrance has been preserved, of which no account has been published; and though it is known to have benefited geography by causing additions to be made in the chart of the _Great South Land_ or _Terra Australis_, yet those additions cannot be claimed with certainty, and are only in part and doubtfully to be recognized by some of the names imposed upon headlands and other parts of the coast marking the time, or being similar to the names given in his former voyage. The discoveries of Tasman have been so ill understood, that in some of the charts published in the eighteenth century, his two voyages are confounded by a representation of them in a single track.