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by Roggewein Aurora, which has never been 

 seen smce its discovery. Fleurieu has calculated 

 its situation at 15* 38' S., and 147" 1^', which 

 agrees very exactly with the longitude and latitude 

 of the island seen by Kotzebue. 



They had scarcely lost sight of Rurick*s chain, when 

 new land appeared in W. by S., which Lieutenant 

 Kotzebue recognised to be the same island which 

 is called Dean on Arrowsmith's charts. It consists, 

 like Rurick's chain, of several islands, some of 

 them of considerable extent, and united by coral 

 reefs. Kotzebue sailed at a distance of a mile, at 

 the most, along the southern side of these islands, 

 which run in a direction from W. by N. and E. by 

 S., to an extent of 72i miles. Its east point lies 

 20' to the west of the west point of Rurick's 

 chain, in 15" 16' 30" S., and 147° 12' W. ; the 

 west point in 15°, and 148° 22'. W. From this 

 point the chain takes a direction to N.E. 



It cannot be doubted, that this island, which 

 Lieutenant Kotzebue called, after Arrowsmith's 

 chart. Dean's Island *, is the same called by Byron 

 Prince of Wales* Island, and is also marked on 

 the charts by the name of Oanna. Byron gives its 

 length at sixty miles in a direction from east to 

 west, and determined its latitude at 15° S., and 



* It received the name of Dean, in the year 1803, from the 

 captain of the Enghsh ship Margaret, who would not consider 

 it as Byron's Prince of Wales' Island, but as quite a new dis- 

 covery. 



