S8 Voyages avd Travels. 



The Board has been informed, that the true spring wheat 

 may be sown successfully so late as the end of April. Se- 

 veral correspondents on the subject of the last harvest ob- 

 served, that the spring wheat had escaped the mildew in 

 parts of the country where the autumnal had not, and 

 yielded better- 

 To the person who shall report to the Board the result of 

 the most satisfactory experiments on spring wheat, which 

 shall ascertain the soil, the sort of wheat, the tiiiie of sow- 

 ing, the produce, and value, the comparative advantages 

 of this and common wheat, and any other circumstances 

 useful to be known, a piece of plate of the value of twenty 

 pounds. 



To be produced on or before the first Tuesday in April 

 1807. 



XIV. Intelligence and Miscellaneowi Articles. 



VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 



i> Sr. Petershurgh, D c. 3'S*. 



EXTRACT of a letter from Capt. Lieut, von Kreusenstern, 

 commander of tlic ships Nadeshda and Neva, to the acade- 

 mician Schubert, dated the Harbour of St. Peter and St. 

 Paul, in KamtH^chatka, Aug. 8, 1804. 



" On the 4th of February we left the island of St. C^.- 

 therine and the coast of Brazil ; on the 23th we discovered 

 Statcn Land ; and on the 25th of March doubled Cape 

 Horn. After entering the Great South Sea, or Pacific Ocean, 

 \ve had stormy and cloudy weather, in consequence of 

 which the two ships were separated, and did not meet till 

 six weeks after, when ihcy arrived at the Marquesas: on 

 the 6th of May we saw Hcx.d's island and some other 

 islands to the north-west of the Marcjuesas ; on the day fol- 

 luvving we anchored at the island Nukatera in the harbour 

 of Anna Maria, a bav called bv the natives Tayo Hoae. 

 Three days atter, that is on the 10th of Mav, the other ship 

 the Neva entered also, aCler having cruised three davs 

 around Kaster Island in seacoh of us. In this island we 

 discovered an e.xcelleut harbour, never before known, 

 which has deep water close to the shore, and is so sheltered 

 by the land that vc?sels can lie in calm water during the 

 most boisterous w inds. The inhabitants behaved exceed- 

 ingly well, showed us every mark of attention, and the 

 good understandinii between us was never interrupted. The 

 island, hov.ever, supplied only wood, fresh water, coco- 

 nuts^ 



