TRANSLATOR S PREFACE. IX 



translator begs leave to refer to his note, 

 vol. ii. page 410., to which he will merely 

 add here, that ei m German is invariably pro- 

 nounced as i long in English ; and ic as Eng- 

 lish cc. It may, likewise, be proper to observe, 

 that Lieutenant Kotzebue and Mr. Chamisso 

 differ in some instances in their orthography 

 of proper names, for which the latter, indeed, 

 apologises in his postscript ; but it has been 

 thought the best to retain the orthography 

 of each. 



In some few instances, doubts have arisen 

 respecting the true translation of scientific 

 terms. This has been particularly the case in 

 what relates to mineralogy, which is partly 

 caused by the different names given by the 

 German mineralogists and geologists to the 

 same mineral or earth, a discrepancy which 

 is equally found among English writers on 

 the same subject. It is, however, hoped, that 

 the terms employed, if not always strictly and 

 technically correct, will be perfectly intelli- 

 gible to those readers who are interested in 

 those parts of the work. The translator has, 

 however, much pleasure in stating, that the 

 list of minerals brought home by the expedi- 



