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found guilty by the grand jury, the warrant for his 

 arrest could not be put in force. 



Mr. Schomburgk became at this time aware that 

 a society for promoting geographical knowledge 

 had recently been instituted in London ; and while 

 he sent his first Hydrographical Survey to the Ad- 

 miralty, he at the same time forwarded a descrip- 

 tion of Anegada to the Royal Geographical Society 

 which was published in their second volume," 

 but being entirely unknown to the Hydrographical 

 Office of the Admiralty, one of His Majesty's sur- 

 veying vessels, then on the "West India station, 

 received orders to test Mr. Schomburgk's work, 

 and the commander of that vessel having reported 

 favourably, the chart was published, t 



The inhabitants of Tortola, a small mountainous 

 island, with little or no resources, complained that 

 the Danish island of St. Thomas was appointed as 

 the station of the West India packets, while they 

 as British subjects thought they were more entitled 

 to the profits which such a station would bring to 

 them ; while, on the other hand, those of St. Tho- 

 mas, anxious to preserve the stay of the English 

 packets in their harbour, deteriorated that of Tor- 

 tola, which, besides, laboured under the disadvan- 

 tage of not being surveyed. Although the survey 

 of Anegada had been executed at his expense, 

 without receiving even a reimbursement for his out- 



* Remarks on Anegada, vol. ii. p. 1 52. 

 t Anegada Island and Reef, by Robert Schomburgk, Hydro- 

 graphical Office, 1832. 



