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Marion's Terre d' Esperance, Prince Edward's Island, and 

 gives no name to the smaller island; his reference to the 

 cave on it identifies it with Marion's He de la Caverne. 

 Moseley of the Challenger, on the contrary, says that the 

 Prince Edward group consists of Marion and Prince Edward 

 Islands, of which Marion Island is the larger, and contains 

 80 square miles. Authorities on the Prince Edward and 

 Crozet groups are C. M. Goodridge's Narrative of a Voyage 

 to the South Seas. Lond., 1883 ; Capt. Lindesay Brine's 

 Visit to the Crozets, in Geogr. Mag., Oct., 1877, and the 

 accounts of the Challenger expedition. 



On the sixth day after leaving the Terre d' JEsperance 

 Marion sighted two other islets in 46 deg. 5 min. S., and 

 42 deg. E. of Paris by dead reckoning, and named them 

 Les lies Froides. They are the Penguin and Hog Islands 

 of the Crozet group. On the morning of the following day 

 (January 23), they were no longer visible; but Possession 

 Island — lie de la prise de possession — was sighted from the 

 Castries, and next day both Possession Island and East Island, 

 the lie Aride of Marion, about ten miles apart, were in sight ; 

 the former is placed in 46 deg. 30 min. S., and 43 deg. E. of 

 Paris ; Eoss places its southernmost point in 46 deg. 28 min. 

 S., its northernmost in 46 deg. 19 min. S., and gives the 

 longitude of these points as 51 deg. 63 min. E., and 51 deg. 

 66 min. E. respectively. 



When the ships were lying off Possession Island, Crozet 

 was sent ashore and annexed it in the name of the King of 

 Prance, and deposited, according to custom, a bottle containing 

 the declaration of annexation on the summit of a pyramid 

 of rocks about 50 feet above sea level. Not a tree or shrub 

 was visible on the island. He mentions only a species of 

 reed {jonc) growing along the shores, a small delicate grass 

 (jgramen), and a plant he calls fico'ides. Penguins, Cape 

 pigeons, cormorants, and other marine birds were so tame 

 as to allow themselves to be taken by hand, and continued to 

 sit on their eggs without apprehension, whilst the seals 

 gambolled undisturbed by the presence of man. Strangest 

 of all, one white pigeon was seen, from which circumstance 

 Crozet supposed that a land producing the food proper to 

 that family could not be far distant. Nothing further of 

 interest occurred till the arrival of the ships in Frederick 

 Henry Bay, on the 5th March, 1772. 



Me. J. B. Walker said that the Society was under great 

 obligations to Mr. Mault for having obtained copies of the 

 interesting maps which he had laid before them, and for his 

 descriptive paper, and also to Mr. McClymont for his 

 criticisms on the sketch charts relating to Marion's expedition. 

 The map of the Southern part of Van Diemen's Land was 

 evidently that of Lieutenant Hayes, though he thought not 



