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CORRECTIONS AND REMARKS. 



VIEW OF THE GREAT OCEAN, &C. 



Tagalese Literature. 



r, C. Alter, on the Tagalese Language, Vienna, 

 1802, merely informs us that an imperfect MS. 

 Tagalese Vocabulary exists in the Imperial Library 

 at Vienna. 



" System of Languages and Numerals of the 

 Eastern Islands of the Great Ocean.'* When we 

 wrote our observations on the dialects of the 

 islanders of the Great Ocean, we had not been 

 able accurately to compare the dialect of Tonga 

 with any other dialect of the same general lan- 

 guage, and such a comparison was necessary suffi- 

 ciently to establish our decision. 



We must here return our thanks to a man of 

 learning, who took a lively interest in the object of 

 our research, and zealously strove to procure for 

 us the literary assistance which we required. His 

 Excellency the Minister of State, Baron William 

 Von Humboldt exerted himself to procure for us 

 some of the books which the venerable mission- 

 aries in the Society islands have written in the 

 same language, and which have been printed partly 



