FIRST PROVINCE OF THE GREAT OCEAN. 9.5 



Thus ends the history of the missions in the 

 Carohnas. 



We have since become acquainted with a single 

 group of these islands, by An Account of the Pe- 

 lew Islands, from the Journals and Communications 

 of Captain Henry Wilson, by George Keate, Esq. 



Burney, in the first chapter of tlie fifth vohnne 

 of his Chronological History of Voyages, circum- 

 stantially relates, from the original authorities, what 

 relates to the Carolinas. At the death of Cantova, 

 lie mentions a memorial of the Governor of the 

 Philippines, but of which we could not obtain a 

 sight. The fifth chapter contains a complete re- 

 presentation of our geographical knowledge of the 

 islands, which the Spaniards comprehend under 

 the name of las Carolinas. 



We are induced to unite in one point of view, 

 and under the name of the Western, or First Pro- 

 vince of the Great Ocean, the Carolinas, to which 

 the more westerly groups are to be added, with the 

 islands lying more to the east, nearly under the 

 same latitude, as far as those which Krusenstern 

 calls after their principal discoverers, Gilbert's and 

 Marshal's islands, together with the Marianas, to 

 the north of the Carolinas. 



Krusenstern, in his Contributions to Hydrogra- 

 phy, Leipzig, 1819, has collected tlie discoveries 

 made by later navigators in these seas under different 

 heads, in pages 94 to 121, and has treated them 

 witli much learninij. He has made c^reat use of 



