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and fancy they had made a new difcovery, when they had 

 only found old ones in a different pofuion from that affigned 

 to them by their former vifiters. 



The iflands of St. Macarius, St. Stephen, St. Theodore, Sr. 

 Abraham, Seduction Ifland, and fome others, which are to 

 be found in Mr. Muller's chart, had no place in this now 

 produced to us ; nay, both Mr. Ifmyloff, and the others af- 

 fured me, that they had been feveral times fought for in 

 vain. And yet it is difficult to believe, how Mr. Muller, 

 from whom fubfequcnt map-makers have adopted them, 

 could place them in his chart without feme authority. Re- 

 lying, however, on the teftimony of thcfe people, whom 

 I thought competent witncffcs, I have left them out of my 

 chart ; and made fuch corre(5lions amongfl: the other iflands 

 as I was told was neceffary. I found there was wanting 

 another correction ; for the difference of longitude, betweeit 

 the Bay of Awatflca, and the harbour of Samganoodha, 

 according to aftronomical obfervations, made at thefe two 

 places, is greater by five degrees and a half, than it is by 

 the chart. This error I have fuppofed to be infufed through- 

 out the whole, though it may not be fo in reality. There 

 was alfo an error in the latitude of fome places ; but this, 

 hardly exceeded a quarter of a degree. 



I fliall now give fome account of the iflands ; beginning, 

 with thofe that lie neareft to Kamtfchatka, and reckoning 

 the longitude from the harbour of Pctropaulowflca, in the 

 Bay of Awatfka. The firft is Beerwg's Ijland, in ^^* of la- 

 titude, and 6° of longitude. Ten leagues from the Soutli 

 end of this, in the dire6lion of Eaft by South, or Eaft South 

 Eaft, lies Ma'uknoi OJlrojf, or the Copper Ifland. The next 

 ifland is Atakou^ laid down in s^' 45' of latitude, and in 



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