312 ISLANDS DISCOVERED 



Lieutenant Kotzebue, on his voyage from the 



Radack islands to Oonalashka, touched at the 



islands discovered by the English frigate Corn- 



wallis in 1807, and which are now usually marked 



on the charts as Cornwallis' Island. He found 



that they consisted of ten small islands united to 



each other by coral reefs. (See chart of these 



islands in KotzebUe*s atlas.) He has determined 



the latitude of the middle of the group to be 



n .r., ^T 1 .1 1 -.J ^ 169° 3' 30" E. 



14° 42 N., and the longitude at iqqo ^q, ^^y, ^^ 



I have shown in another place that these islands 

 are probably the Caspar Rico of the ancient 

 Spanish navigators. 



On the 20th of October, the same year, on the 

 voyage from the Sandwich islands to Radack, 

 Kotzebue looked about for a group of small islands, 

 discovered on the 14th of December 1807 by the 

 English frigate Cornwallis, and which in the charts 

 now bear the name of Smith's Islands, after the 

 present Captain Smith of the English navy, who 

 has been employed for some years past in survey- 

 ing the coasts of the MediteiTanean, and served 

 on board the Cornwallis in 1807, as lieutenant. 

 Lieutenant Kotzebue has given a chart of his 

 own of these very dangerous islands, which are 

 surrounded for several miles into the sea with 

 shoals, on which the Rurick was nearly wrecked. 

 According to his observations, they lie in 169° 39' 

 520" W., and 16° 45' 36" N. That these ishuuli^ 



