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He, however, saw no land, and it is, perliaps, now as 

 good as decided, that the previous opinion of the 

 EngUsh geographers, that the Bauman islands, and 

 Bougainville's Isles des Navigateurs, are the same, is 

 correct; to which opinion also Captain Burney 

 assents ; however much Fleurieu tries to contradict 

 this hypothesis. Lieutenant Kotzebue was unable 

 to find either the islands called Roggewein by 

 Fleurieu, wliich Roggewein considered to be the 

 Cocoa and Verrader's islands, or the great islands 

 of Tienlioven and Groningen ; of the latter of which 

 Burney is of opinion, that they are the most southern 

 of the Solomon's islands. 



The above proves that the voyage of Lieutenant 

 Kotzebue has thrown an important light on the 

 discoveries of Le Maire, Schouten, and Rogge- 

 wein. It is only to be wished that the islands 

 discovered by him, between the 138th and 149th 

 degree of longitude, may soon be subjected to a 

 second revision, and that they may furnish a 

 harvest as satisfactory as that of Lieutenant Kot- 

 zebue. * 



The 30th of April, he saw Penrhyn islands, 

 a group of inhabited coral islands, quite similar to 

 those he saw last. The Penrhyn islands were dis- 

 covered, in the year I788, by the English ship Lady 

 Penrhyn, and have not, I believe, since been visited 



* In my hydrographicai contributions, page 173. and 189., 

 more information may be obtained on the discoveries of L« 

 Maire, Schouten, and Roggewein. 



