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ANALYSES 



ISLANDS DISCOVERED BY THE RURICK. 



Some accounts of the discoveries of Lieutenant 

 Kotzebue liavc already appeared in the pubUc 

 prints; they have, however, occasioned remarks, 

 as if most of the islands seen by him had been pre- 

 viously known, and therefore the honour of their 

 discovery did not belong to the Rurick. This essay 

 is therefore intended to contain a short analysis of 

 the islands seen by Lieutenant Kotzebue, which 

 will enable every one to judge how far this assertion 

 is well founded, and whether the voyage of the 

 Rurick has done any service towards the extension 

 of geography.* 



As the Great Ocean has, during the last fifty 

 years, been crossed in all possible directions, as 

 well by merchantmen, as by ships expressly sent 

 out to make discoveries, a very scanty harvest can 

 be expected for a mariner who now undertakes a 



* The Royal Society at Gbttingen has already published, in 

 its learned journal, an extract from an account, which I had 

 the honour to present to it some years ago, on the first dis- 

 coveries of Lieutenant Kotzebue. In this analysis I shall in- 

 deed speak of the later discoveries, but shall be obliged to repeat 

 many things from the account given to the Royal Society. 



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