306 ISLANDS DISCOVERED 



there lies exactly in the west a group of islands 

 which they call Bigini, which must indisputably 

 be the Pescadores. 



On the 1st of January, 1817, he discovered an 

 inhabited island, low, and overgrown with wood, 

 which, from north to south, is three miles long, and 

 three quarters broad. Its latitude was determined 

 at 10° 8' 27'' N., and its longitude at 189° 4' 46''. 

 It received the name of New Year's Island; the 

 natives called it Miadi. On the 4th of January, 

 they discovered a group of islands forming an 

 archipelago, with a basin in the middle, twenty- 

 seven miles long, and twelve miles broad, having 

 two passages leading to itj the one through which 

 the Rurick sailed in was only 50 fathoms, and 

 the one by which it sailed out, was 150 fathoms 

 broad. Lieutenant Kotzebue remained till the 

 7th of February in this group of islands, which 

 consisted of sixty-five islands, and received the 

 name of Count RomanzofF. The latitude of 

 the anchoring-place at the island of Otdia, the most 

 eastern, and at the same time the largest island in 

 this group is 9° 28' 9" N., the longitude, from 300 

 lunar distances, 189° 43' 45" W. This group, in a 

 direction from west to east, occupies the space of 

 thirty miles ; its breadth is about ten miles. 



A second group, likewise in a circular archipelago, 

 was called after the late minister of the marine. 

 Admiral Tschitschagoff ; its length from N. W. to 

 S. E. was twenty-four, its breadth only four miles. 



