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protection which the minister of the marine affords to useful 
enterprises. ° 
The plan of the new voyage, an account of which the Aca- 
demy has charged us to give them, was presented to the mar- 
quis de Clermont-Tonnerre, then minister of the marine, by 
MM. Duperrey and Durville, towards the end of 1821. His 
Excellency approved of it, and placed the corvette Coquille 
at the disposal of these young officers. The zeal and skill of 
which they had given repeated proofs,—the one during the cir- 
cumnayigation of the Uranie, the other as fellow-labourer of 
Captain Gauttier,—afforded every pledge that could be desired. 
The Academy will find, at least in our opinion, in the analysis 
which we have to lay before it of the numerous labours per- 
formed on board the Coquille, that the hopes of government 
and of men of science have been completely realized. 
Itinerary. 
The Coquille set sail from Toulon the 11th of August 1822. 
The 22d of the same month she anchored in the roads of St. 
Croix at Teneriffe, which she quitted the 1st of September, 
making for the coast of Brazil. In her passage, M. Duperrey 
- observed, the 5th of October, the small isles of Martin- Vaz and 
of the Trinity ; on the 16th, the Coquille was moored at the an- 
chorage of the isle of Saint-Catherine: she staid there till the 
30th. The 18th of November she reached Port Louis of the 
Malouines, situated at the bottom of the bay Francaise, from 
whence she sailed the 18th of December, to double Cape Horn: 
she then visited, on the western coast of America, the port Con- 
ception at Chili; that of Callao at Peru; and afterwards the 
port of Payta, situated between the magnetic equator and the 
terrestrial equator. The want of any fiploniath relation be- 
between France and the republican governments of South 
America did not occasion any obstacle to the proceedings of 
M. Duperrey: on the coasts of Chili, as at Peru, the autho- 
rities eagerly complied with their slightest wishes. 
The Coquille set sail from Payta the 22d of March 1823: | 
in her course she coasted along the Dangerous archipelago, 
and first put in at Otaheite the 3d of May, and then at Bora- 
bora, which also makes part of the Society Isles. Quitting 
this last point, the expedition took a westerly course; ob- 
served, successively, the Salvage Isles, Eoa (in the group of 
the Friendly Islands), Santa-Cruz, Bougainville, Bouka, and 
reached New Ireland, where she anchored in the bay of Praslin 
the 11th of August. 
After a stay of nine days, the expedition left the port of 
Praslin, to make for Waigiou. We shall presently speak of 
the 
