* Want of room prohibits us from giving the various positions of these dangerous reefs.

The Ephemerides of Coimbra give the same result without indicating from what authority.

It is not said in the Ephemerides, whether this isle, Santa Maria, makes part of the group of Trinidad, as the latitude seems to show, or that of Martin Vaz, whose name is not indicated.

The existence of the isle of Saxembourg or Saxemburg has been doubted. The longitude indicated by Lindemann being very uncertain, a difference of two degrees is no objection to our recognising the identity. It is only necessary to verify in detail the observation of Captain Galloway. Captain Flinders had in vain sought for it from 28 degrees to 22, and even farther, but inclining his course to E. S. E. The same year, the American Captain Galloway was assured he saw it under the old latitude but much farther east.

The pilot Long, sent from the Cape to Rio Plata observed an isle which he believed to be Saxembourg, but which is 11 deg. 40 min. anore westerly than the isle seen by Galloway. This isle was four marine leagues long, and

two and a half bread; it was flat, but on the east there was a peak about seventy feet high.

The route of Flinders did not pass either the isle of Columbus nor that seen by Galloway; if the observation of the last is not confirmed, the isle of Columbus would be the true Saxemburg, notwithstanding the enormous difference of longitude. But we think that the two isles exist simultaneously.

END OF VOLUME FIFTH.

BOOK XCIII.