BY THE RURICK. 295 



The I6th of April, Lieutenant Kotzebue dis- 

 covered, in 14° 50' S., and 138" 47' W., a low island 

 here and there overgrown with trees, with a lake 

 {lagoon) in the middle : its length in the direction 

 from N. W. to S. E. five miles, (sixty to a degree): 

 they saw no inhabitants. There probably is no 

 doubt that it is the Dog Island, discovered by 

 Le Maire and Schouten : the best proof of its 

 identity is its great distance from the nearest 

 island in the west. Lieutenant Kotzebue was 

 likewise of this opinion ; but, as it did not appear 

 improbable to him that an island resembling it 

 might still be found there, he gave it the name of 

 the Doubtful Island. 



The 20th of April, Lieutenant Kotzebue dis- 

 covered a similar, but much smaller coral island. Its 

 length, in a direction N. N. E. and S. S. W., is three 

 miles, and its whole circumference scarcely ten 

 miles. It is particularly distinguished by its having 

 no lagoon, with which almost all the Coral islands 

 are provided. Its latitude is 14° 5T 20" S., and its 

 longitude 144° 28' 30". Lieutenant Kotzebue, 

 with justice, took it for a new discovery ; and as it 

 was the first, he gave it the name of the author of 

 this princely undertaking. 



RomanzofF's Island is not the island of Sondre 

 Grund, called so by Schouten : this is inhabited, 

 and scarcely a German mile long; it is likewise not 

 Schouten's Waterland, for this has a lagoon; nor is 

 it the island called by Roggewein CarlshofF; though, 



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