. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. 0 and 27° 45north, the centre line of the groupbeing in longitude about 142° 15^east. The islands were visited byCaptain Beechey in 1827, and, withthe proverbial modesty and justiceof English surveyors, named by him,as if they had been then first ob-served. The northern cluster hecalled Parrys Group; the middlecluster, consisting of three largerislands, respectively Peel, Buckland,and Stapleton; and the southerncluster was named by him Baileys, utterly regardless of the fact thus statedby himself: The southern c
. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. 0 and 27° 45north, the centre line of the groupbeing in longitude about 142° 15^east. The islands were visited byCaptain Beechey in 1827, and, withthe proverbial modesty and justiceof English surveyors, named by him,as if they had been then first ob-served. The northern cluster hecalled Parrys Group; the middlecluster, consisting of three largerislands, respectively Peel, Buckland,and Stapleton; and the southerncluster was named by him Baileys, utterly regardless of the fact thus statedby himself: The southern cluster is that on which a whale ship, com-manded by a Mr. Coffin, anchored in 1823, who was first to communicate itsposition to this country, and who bestowed his name upon the port. As thecluster was, however, left without any distinguishing appellation, I named itafter Prancis Bailey, Esq., late President of the Astronomical Society.*To the principal port of Peel Island he gave the name of Port Lloyd. This was a pretty liberal distribution of honors by an accidental visitor. Findlajs Directory of the Pacific Ocean. 142 East of Greenwich ,-1 I 1 I I r ^ ,K/VTER I. OFTHE BONINGROUPofISLANDS. Hars^^O^ fiy STAPLETOr ON I. 2/1 rortLldjd
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