29^ ISLANDS DISCOVERED 



according to Behren's description of Iloggewein's 

 voyage, it isofthe same extent; but this has a lagoon, 

 the former not; besides this, the island of Carlshoif 

 lies only twelve German miles east of the Shadelyk 

 islands; Romanzoff*s Island, on the contrary, above 

 thirty miles. Schouten's course was probably too 

 northerly, and Roggewein^s course too much to the 

 south, to see this little island, of which the Rurick 

 lost sight at the distance of eleven miles. 



The following morning an island with a lagoon 

 was seen in W 41' S., and 144° 59' 30" W., which 

 was called Spiridoff; its length, in the direction of 

 N.N.E. and S.S.W., was eleven miles. It seems to me, 

 (though I may be mistaken,) to be the most westerly 

 of the two islands, called by Commodore Byron 

 King George's Islands, and whose proper name is 

 Oura. This island, which has also a lagoon, lies, 

 according to Cook, in 14*^ 37' S., and 145° 10' W.: 

 he gives it an extent, in the direction N. E. and 

 S. W., of nearly twelve miles (almost four leagues), 

 and a breadth from three to five miles. Here every 

 thing, therefore, coincides, latitude and longitude, 

 extent and direction, external and internal form, 

 by which I understand the lake in the middle of 

 the island. But as the island of Oura lies six miles 

 S.W. by W. from the most eastern of King George's 

 islands, or the i^land of Tiookea, it might be ob- 

 jected, that Lieutenant Kotzebue must have seen 

 these also; but it may easily be conceived, even 

 without seeing his chart, that he could not see 

 them. The island of Oura is twelve miles long; 



