Excerpt from The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1771 Thus thefe iflands, for above a century and ahalf, continued to be accidentally touched at by different navigators, and to receive arbitrary names at the will of each new comer, without any attempt being made to form a fettlement on them, or any confideration taken of their capability or importance. It does not' appear that the Spaniards, in all this long courfe of years, had, either by chance or otherwife, ever touched at them; and they leem to have known fo little about them, as not even to'have given them a name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.