.300 ISLANDS DISCOVERED 



the longitude of the western end 151° 5S\ Deduct 

 from this 3" 5.5', which Cook found Byron's lon- 

 gitude of King George's Islands too westerly, and 

 there remains 147° 58'. The longitude of this island, 

 cj^rected by the astronomer Wales, is 147° ^^8'. 

 The extent, direction, latitude, and longitude 

 therefore agree exactly with those of Dean's Island 

 seen by Lieutenant Kotzebue. 



Exactly in the west, fifteen miles from the west 

 point of this island, which Burney has made 

 it very probable is Schouten's Vlieghen Island, 

 Lieutenant Kotzebue, on the 24th April, again 

 discovered land ; it was of the same nature as that 

 he had just left, that is, small islands united to 

 each other by coral reefs. This island-chain, ex- 

 tending from N. N. E. to S. S. W., is fifteen miles in 

 length, and particularly distinguished by having in 

 the middle of the lake (with few exceptions, a pro- 

 perty of all the coral islands,) a small island thickly 

 overgrow^n with trees. He gave these islands, the 

 middle of which hes in 15° S., and 148° 41' W., the 

 name of Krusenstern's islands. As Byron sailed 

 along the north side of his Prince of Wales' Island, 

 and then took his course to N. 82° W., it is easy to be 

 conceived that he did not see this island, and it 

 may therefore be looked upon as a new discovery. 

 Lieutenant Kotzebue, pleased to have reached 

 the end of this labyrinth, now steered W. N. W. 

 to look for Roggewein's Bauman's islands, in that 

 part where Fleurieu thought that they must lie. 



