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THE LOW ISLANDS IN 1.5° S. LATITUDE, BETWEEN 

 138° AND 149" W. LONGITUDE. 



ROMANZOFF ISLAND. 



1 HE author of these papers leaves it to learned 

 hydrographers, who require the most scientific re- 

 search respecting the similarly formed reefs and 

 low islands in these seas, on the one hand, to com- 

 pare the low islands which we saw about 15° S. 

 latitude, between 138° and 149° W. longitude 

 from Greenwich, in the year 1816, namely, in the 

 order in which they follow from E. to W. (the 

 direction of our course,) the Doubtfullsland (/Sz^wi- 

 nitelni/ Ostrqffl) RomanzofF and SpiridofF islands, 

 Rurickand Dean's Chain, and Krusenstern's Island, 

 with the discoveries of former navigators, and 

 especially with those of Le Maire and Schouten, 

 whose course we followed ; and, on the other hand, 

 to look for their names on the chart of Tupaya, in 

 the limits of which they are situated. 



Krusen stern has treated on the first of these 

 points in his Contributions to Hydrography, p. 173. 

 But we cannot recognize in the desolate Spiridoff 

 Island, that of Sondergrondt, which is said to be 

 very populous, and richly covered with cocoa-trees ; 

 and this seems to cast a doubt on his decision upon 

 other points. 



