a small flat island, which is separated from Cape Nota in Japan by a channel about five leagues wide. Its circumference does not exceed two leagues; it is well wooded, of an agreeable aspect, and well inhabited. Peron, who sailed round it, remarked from the quarter-deck of his ship some considerable edifices between the houses of the inhabitants; and hard hard by a fort of castle, at the south-west point of the island, he distinguished some gibbets. He does not, however, affirm that those gibbets were for the execution of criminals; for, as he observes, it would be singular enough if the Japanese, whose customs are so different from ours, were in this point to resemble us so nearly. He represents the island as surrounded with dreadful breakers; at the distance of a league and a half from which, he had constantly 60 fathoms, with rocky bottom. He places the island (differently, according to the editor of his voyage, from all other geographers) in latitude 37° 51' north, and in Long. 135° 20' east from Paris.