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The next mornino;, he would fain have made me a pre- '778- 



^ ^ Oaober. 



fent of a fea-otter flcin, which, he fliid, was worth eighty ^-^ — ^ ' 



roubles at Kamtfchatka. However, I thought proper to de- " *y ' • 

 cHne it > but I accepted of fome dried fiOi, and feveral baf- 

 kets of the hly, or faranne root, which is defcribed at large 

 in the Hillory of Kamtfchatka *. In the afternoon, Mr. If- 

 myloff, after dining with Captain Gierke, left us with all 

 his rerinue, promifmg to return in a few days. According- 

 ly, on the 19th, he made us another vifit, and brought with Monday i<;> 

 him the charts before mentioned, which he allowed me to 

 copy } and the contents of which furnilh matter for the fol- 

 lowing obfcrvations. 



• There were two of them, both manufcripts, and bearing 

 every mark of authenticity. The firft, comprehended the 

 P enjlnnjldan Sea ; the coaft of Tartary, as low as the latitude 

 of 41°; the Kuril Iflands; and the peninfula of Kamtfchatka. 

 Since this map had been made, Wawfeclee IrkeechofF, 

 Captain of the fleer, explored, in 1758, the coaft of Tartary 

 from. Okotfk, and the river Amur, to Japan, or 41" of lati- 

 tude. Mr. Ifmyloffalfo informed us, that great part of the 

 fea-coaft of the peninfula of Kamtfchatka had been cor- 

 re(5led by himfelf ; and defcribed the inftrument he made 

 life of, which muft have been a thccdolite. He alfo inform- 

 ed us, that there were only two harbours lit for fliipping, 

 on all the Eafl coaft of Kamtfchatka, njiz. the bay oi Aivatjka^. 

 and the river Olutora, in the bottom of the Gulf of the fame- 

 name; that there was not a finglc harbour upon its Weft 

 coaft ; and that 7'o.tnfk was the only one on all the Weft fide 

 of the Penfchinlkian Sea, except Okotfic, till we come to 

 die river Amur, The Kurile Iftands afford only one har- 



* Eiiglifli Traiiflation,. p. 83, 84. 



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