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scripts of their revered relative to some institution where they 

 may be occasionally consulted by the friends and promoters 

 of mathematical science, do now, with the consent of the trus- 

 tees of the British Museum, deposit them in the library of that 

 magnificent national institution. 



Royal Military Academy, OlJNTHUS GREGORY." 



Woolwich, "Nov. 182-4. 



NEWLY-DISCOVERED ISLAND. 



A new island in the Southern Ocean was discovered last 

 July by Capt. Hunter, of the Donna Carmelita. It is de- 

 scribed as " entirely composed of lava, in some places almost 

 a metal. It lies in the latitude of 15° 31 S. ; and longitude 

 176° 11 E. by sun and moon, brought up by chronometer for 

 four days previous." It is called Onacuse, or Hunter's Island. 

 The inhabitants, who came off in canoes, manifested a friendly 

 disposition ; and the cutter was sent ashore in charge of the 

 first officer, who had an interview with the king, and trafficked 

 with the natives on very friendly terms for provisions. They 

 are about the colour of Malays, but have more of the Euro- 

 pean features. Their canoes are very handsome, not unlike 

 those of Ceylon, and ornamented with shells. 



EXPEDITION FROM MISSOURI TO MEXICO. 



A statement of facts has been lately presented to Congress 

 from Mr. Augustus Storrs, of New Hampshire, in relation to 

 the origin, present state, and future prospect ol" trade and in- 

 tercourse between the Valley of the Mississippi and the inter- 

 nal provinces of Mexico, which was ordered to be printed and 

 referred. 



Mr. S. has been one of a caravan of eighty persons, 156 

 horses, and 23 waggons and carriages, which had made the 

 expedition from Missouri to Santa Fe (of New Mexico), in May 

 and June last. His account was full of interest and novelty. 

 It sounded like romance to hear of caravans of men, horses, 

 and waggons, traversing with their merchandize the vast plain 

 which lies between the Mississippi and the Rio del Norte. The 

 story seemed better adapted to Asia than to North America. 

 But, romantic as it might seem, the reality had already ex- 

 ceeded the visions of the wildest imagination. The journe}' to 

 New Mexico, but lately deemed a chimerical project, had be- 

 come an affiiir of ordinary occurrence. Santa Fe, but lately 

 the Ultima Thulc of American enterprise, was now considered 

 as a stage only in the progress, or rather a new point of de- 

 parture to our invincible citizens. Instead of turning back 

 from that point, the caravans broke up there, and the sub- 

 divisions 



