_Ruatan_ or _Rattan_, in 16° 24ʹ north latitude, and 87° 10ʹ west longitude, is thirty miles long and twelve broad, with a fine harbour. The island is surrounded with shoals; it was settled by the British in 1741, for the purpose of carrying on the logwood trade, but was soon abandoned. _Utila_ is a small island to the south-west of Ruatan. _The Swan Islands_ are a group at some distance from the north-coast of Honduras, being chiefly barren rocks. Off Cape Gracias à Dios, are a multitude of islets and shoals. Misteriosa and Santanilla are at a still greater distance, nearly in the middle of the gulf of Honduras. _Santanilla_, consists of two small islands surrounded with rocks, in 17° 20ʹ north latitude, 85° 30ʹ west longitude. _Misteriosa_ to the north-west of these, seems to be a considerable bank or shoal. _Viciosas_ is a cluster of very small isles, in 15° 12ʹ north latitude, and 84° 4ʹ west longitude, opposite to the Bay of Carthago. _Cocoa-nut keys and Carrantasca shoals_ are other small clusters, to the north of Cape Gracias à Dios. South of Cape Gracias à Dios are several groups of small islands and rocks. Tangulaco, Man of War Keys, Pearl Keys, little Corn Island, Great Corn Island, and a multitude of little islets, line the eastern shore of Honduras. _The Pearl Keys_ are a groupe of islets near Pearl Key lagoon, on the Mosquito shore, in north latitude 11° 15ʹ, west longitude 83° 12ʹ. St. Andres and Santa Catalina, or Old Providence, lie farther out at sea than the last mentioned. _St Andres_ or _Andero_ is situated, in 12° 30ʹ north latitude, 81° 40ʹ west longitude, south south-east of Cape Gracias à Dios, and west south-west of _Providence Island_, which lies 80° 45ʹ west longitude; and 13° 26ʹ north latitude, is eleven miles long and four broad, with a good soil, excellent water, and pleasant climate. It was formerly inhabited, as well as many other small isles in these seas, by the Buccaneers, who fortified it. It is said there are no serpents or venomous reptiles found here, although it is near a continent in which they are so plentiful; at present this isle is uninhabited. Roncador, Serranilla and Serrana, are to the north-east of the last. _Roncador_ is in 13° 45ʹ north latitude, and 79° 30ʹ west longitude. _Serranilla_ Isles, are a cluster of small islands, in north latitude 16° 10ʹ, west longitude 80° 10ʹ. _Serrana_ or _Pearl Island_, so called from Serrana, a Spanish navigator, who was wrecked on it, is in 14° 5ʹ north latitude, 78° 50ʹ west longitude. All these which lie to the east of Honduras are small. In the bay or lake of Chiriqui on the coast of Veragua, are several groupes, of which Provision Island and Bocalero are the principal ones. The whole of the eastern coast of Spanish North America abounds with islets, rocks, shoals and sand-banks, and there are consequently but few good harbours; for although there are many deep bays and gulfs, yet the entrances to them are in general blocked up.