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It is nearly eight months since several circumstances determined them to niake 

 a voyage on their own account, and they equipped for this purpose the brigs 

 Seraph, Capt. Pendleton, and Annawan, Capt. Palmer, and a schooner, which 

 set sail on the 15th October 1829.* These two sailors have passed the greater 

 part of their lives in these seas ; and Mr. Palmer gave his name to that tongue 

 of land situated to the south of South Shetland. The Lyceum of Natural 

 History of New York, anxious to contribute to the success of this enterprize, 

 appointed Dr. Eights, one of its members, to accompany the expedition in the 

 capacity of Naturalist, and Mr. Reynolds, above mentioned, also went out with 

 it. In January last they were near Cape Horn, and proposed to advance towards 

 the South Pole during the season. 



The report of Mr. Reynolds mentions at least 200 islands, rocks, and reefs, 

 which are not found on our maps, or which are ignorantly given. The following 

 are selected at hazard, and it would be well that they were entered into our best 

 maps.-(- It may be remarked that none of these places is situated under a low 

 latitude, in consequence of the difficulty of procuring information from the 



* A notice of this expedition will be found in Vol. I. p. 290, of this JoumaL 

 t The loose manner in which maps are got up in this country is disgraceful to 

 those whose names are engraven on them. We hope the Geographical Society of Lon- 

 don will give a new impulse to this important branch of geography. Ed. 



