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however, prove that the determination of the lon- 

 gitude of Captain Marshall is more correct than 

 that of Captain Gilbert, to whom Arrowsmith has 

 given the preference. 



On the 21st of May, a group of low, but in- 

 habited, islands were discovered : they were almost 

 all united to each other by coral reefs ; and reefs 

 extended from these islands fifteen miles to the 

 north, and twelve miles to the west. Lieutenant 

 Kotzebue sailed all round, and found a passage of 

 two miles broad, through which he sailed. The 

 islands north of this channel he called KutusofF, 

 and the southern, Suw-aroff islands. The two 

 groups, taken together, have an almost north and 

 south direction, and in this direction occupy an 

 extent of twenty -five miles and a half. The channel, 

 which separates the two groups, and is three miles 

 and a half broad, lies in 11° 11' 20" north, and 

 190* 9' 30" west. Kotzebue visited these islands, 

 for the second time, in the following year, and 

 learnt that they were called, by the natives, Udi- 

 rick, andTagay. 



As these islands are not found on any chart of 

 the South Sea, Kotzebue justly considered them as 

 a new discovery. An attempt has been made to 

 dispute him the honour of this discovery, by assert- 

 ing that the KutusofFs are the same that Wallis 

 took for the Pescadores. According to Walhs, one 

 of the two islands seen by him lies in 11° north, 

 and 192° 30' west j the other in 11" 20' north, 

 and 192" 58' west. The description given by 



