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And it is added, Unless the Hudson's Bay Company have al- 

 tered their minds, it is easily to be seen what assistance they will 

 lend to any adventurers who may be inclined to attempt a passag,e 

 to the Southern Ocean, which, if efifected, would certainly open 

 a new mine of wealth to this country, by finding a vent for all 

 sorts of its manufactures. 



NEW ISLANDS DISCOVERED. 



Extract of a letter from Around S. de Peyster, on a voyage 

 from Valparaiso to Calcutta : — " On the evening of the IJth of 

 May, lSi9, one of the people discovered a large fire. We hove- 

 to until day-light, when another small low island appeared about 

 five miles under our lee ; we passed it close ; it appeared clothed 

 with cocoa-nut trees, and doubtless inhabited. It is singular that 

 /Commodore Byron continued in the same parallel of latitude uur 

 til within a short distance of the easternmost group (for so at day- 

 light I hey had proved to be) and then steered to the northward; 

 and Capt. Wallis passed about the same distance from the west- 

 ernmost. To the former 1 gave the name of Ellice's Group, in 

 honour of my friend Ellice, and to the latter my officers and pas- 

 sengers gave the name of De Pevster's Islands. — Ellice's Group 

 jies in long. ISO. 54. W. lat. 8. '29. S. ; De Peystcr's Islands, 

 181. 43.W.lat.8.5. S.; discovered on the l/th and 18th of May', 

 1S19. The longitude is deduced from lun-ir observations taken 

 at the time, and two chronometers exactly agreeing. I am thus 

 particular, for the information of any who may follovy this track 

 from Chili to India." 



EARTHaUAKES IN 1819. 



Jan. 8, 1819. At Genoa; the people fled into the country, 



Feb. 24, in the night. Canton of Tessin, near Morbio. 



also in the night. Palermo ; several shocks, a num- 

 ber of houses overturned. 



26. Rome. Frascati, and Albano ; shocks in the direction from 

 S.E. to N.E.' 



Latter days of February. Syria ; shocks, very strong. 



Feb. 28, in the night. Teflis in Georgia; shocks preceded 

 \i\ a subterraneous noise ; several old houses destroyed. 



March 28. Cran and Mazera; shocks in succession for an 

 Jiour ; houses tumbled dowji, and numbers of the inhabitants bu- 

 ried in the ruins. 



April 3,4, 11. Capiapo in Chili ; three awful shocks, which 

 totally destroyed that city ; only 3000 persons were able to save 

 themselves in the surromiding plains. 



8. Temeswar in Hungary ; three shocks. 



10. Landshut, Germany ; slight shock. 



May 26, six P.M. Corneto in Italy; many houses thrown 

 down; a mpiibpr of persons killed. 



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