LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE. 115 
into many errors concerning them. The group 
consists of a number of small islands connected 
by coral reefs, which form a circular chain, and 
enclose a large piece of water. When we had 
reached the southern point of the éast Pallisers, 
we saw a ridge stretching ten miles westward 
to two small islands, and thence taking a north- 
ern direction to unite itself at a considerable 
distance with larger ones. 
Cook, from his own account, did not approach 
near enough to see this ridge, and from a dis. 
tance mistook the two little woody islands it 
embraces for the most southerly of a distinct 
cluster, which he calls the fourth group of Pal- 
liser Islands. I can maintain that there are only 
three such groups, as the map which accompa- 
nies this volume will show. At noon we found 
our latitude to be 15° 42’ 19’, and the longi- 
tude 146° 21’ 6”. 
The abovementioned two small islands on 
the reef lay directly North, and the southern 
part of the first cluster of Pallisers was no 
longer visible. Viewed from this spot, the 
smaller ones might have been mistaken by us 
also for part of another group, if we had not 
