SHETLAND, NEW SOUTH, a large tract of uninhabited land, situate to the southward of Cape Horn, discovered in 1819 by Mr William Smith, the master of a British merchant Brig, and which, in some minds, revived the belief of a vast continent within the Antarctic Circle. Mr Smith gave to it the name of South Shetland, on account of its lying nearly in the same degree of south, as the Shetland Isles of north latitude. There is a full account of his observations in a letter written by Mr J. Miers, published in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Vol. III. p. 367. Though he gave the appellation of New to the land in question, it rather appears, as we have observed in our article on the POLAR SEAS, that the first discovery of it was made so long ago as the year 1599, by a Dutch navigator of the name of Gherritz. We have also stated, in the same place, that this land appears to be an Island, and not part of a Continent. See p. 215 of this Volume.