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* VII. The Feejee Islands.— Captain D'Urville has done a great deal 
to give us a more correct chart of these islands, having surveyed a 
great part of them ; but still he has left unexplored many islands 
belonging to this archipelago. In my supplementary memoir to the 
chart of these islands, I have endeavoured to combine Captain D'Ur- 
ville's survey with such surveys as had been made previous to his 
voyage; and have constructed, according to all the data that have 
come to my knowledge, a new chart of the Feejee islands (named by 
Captain D'Urville, Viti Islands.) Of course the chart cannot be very 
correct, but it may perhaps serve till a new complete survey is made 
of them. 
VIII. New Ireland. — It is astonishing that nearly two centuries 
have elapsed without the islands situated to the north of New Ireland 
—first seen by Tasman, and since by Dampier and Bougainville- 
having been examined, so that we know as little of them as was 
known one hundred and fifty years ago. There remains, then, to be 
made a complete survey of all these islands. As to the islands near 
them, seen by Maurell, it is not likely that they are the same, as some 
have supposed. This is another reason why they should be all 
explored with the greatest precision. 
IX. Admiralty Islands. — It is much to be wished that the islands 
seen by Maurell, to the eastward of the Great Admiralty Island, 
should be explored, since we know that Maurell's account of his 
discoveries does not satisfy the hydrographer. 
X. New Britain. — Admiral D'Entrecasteaux has seen and deter- 
mined, with his usual exactness, the islands situated along the north 
coast of New Britain ; but he has not been able to lay down the coast 
itself, which he has seen only at a distance, and some parts not at all. 
*XI. Low Islands. — Captain Hagemuster, of the Russian navy, 
discovered, in the year 1830, an island to the westward of King 
George's Islands. This island cannot be any other than Schouten's 
Waterlandt. Captain Wilson sailed between two islands, which lie 
took to be King George's Islands. Most navigators have been of the 
same opinion ; although there is a difference of longitude of more 
than a degree between the islands seen by Wilson and King George's 
Islands. Captain Duperrey, (an excellent authority as every hydro- 
grapher will readily admit,) is of a different opinion ; he maintains 
that the two islands between which Wilson sailed are not King 
George's Islands, but are situated to the westward of them. He 
thinks that the island seen by Captain Hagemuster, which I take 
