AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
Art. L—Migrations in the Pacific Ocean, from the volume on 
the Ethnography and Philology of the U. S. Exploring Expe- 
dition under Cuartes Wixxes, U.S.N.; by Horatio Hate, 
Philologist of the Expedition. 1846. 
Tue work by Mr. Hale from which we gather the following 
facts and conclusions respecting the migrations of the islanders 
of the Pacific Ocean, bears evidence throughout of great labor, 
directed by a clear and philosophical mind. The first 225 pages 
are devoted to Ethnography, or an account of the customs, reli- 
iS gion, civil polity and origin of the nations of the several coun- 
tries and islands visited by the Expedition. 'The remaining 440 
pages comprise the Philology of the same regions. ‘The various 
dialects of Polynesia are treated of under the general head of a 
Comparative Grammar of Polynesia, followed by a Polynesian 
lexicon. The languages of the Feejee Islands, the Kingsmills, 
Rotuma, Australia, and northwest coast of America, and some 
dialects of Patagonia and southern Africa, come next under consid- 
eration. We feel assured that a glance at the work will excite sur- 
prise in all at the amount of information collected, and pleasure 
at the system and perspicuity with which the whole is presented. 
In common with many others, we had expected but little more 
than a few imperfect vocabularies from this department in the 
Expedition. But this view arose from are of the advan- 
“Srconp Serixs, Vol. I, No. 3.—May, 1846. 
