OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 
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Polar Sea New Georgia ; but having afterwards recollected that this name is 1819. 
already occupied in another part of the world, I deemed it expedient to change 
it to’ that of the North Georgian Islands, in honour of our gracious So- 
vereign, George the Third, whose whole reign had been so eminently dis- 
tinguished by the extension and improvement of geographical and nautical 
knowledge, and for the prosecution of new and important discoveries in both. 
