504 AVOYAGETO 



1778. ic° or i6"of lonp-itude. This ifland is about eighteen lca";ues 



Oclober. -" ^ , o a 



V— -^ — » in exceiu, in tlic dire(5lion of Eaft and Wed; and feems to 

 be the fame land which Bcering fell in with, and named 

 ■Aloura -S"/. John. But there are no iflands about it, except two 

 inconfidcrable ones, lying three or four leagues from the 

 Jiad end, in the direction of Eaft North Eafc. 



Wc next come to a group, confiding of fix or more idands; 

 A two of which, ^tghka and Amhik are tolerably large ; and 

 in each of them is a good harbour. The middle of this 

 group lies in the latitude of 52° 30', and 28° of longitude 

 from Awaidca ; and its extent, Eaft and Wed, is four-de- 

 grees. Thefe are the ides that Mr. Ifmyloff Aiid were to 

 be removed four degrees to the Ead, which is here done. 

 And in the fituation they have in my chart, was a group, 

 condding of ten fmall idands, which, I was told, were 

 wholly to be druck out ; and alfo two idands lying between 

 them and the group to which Oonalaflika belongs. In 

 the place of thefe two, an idand called Amoghta (which in 

 the chart was dtuated in the latitude of 51° 45', and 4" of 

 longitude to the Wed) was brought. 



Nothing more need be faid to fliew how erroneous the 

 fituation of many of thefe idands may be ; and for why:h 

 I am in nowife accountable. But the podtion of the larged 

 group, of which Oonalaflika is one of the principal idands, 

 ,and the only one in which there is a harbour, is not liable 

 to any fuch errors. Mod of thefe idands were feen by us ; 

 and confequently their latitude and longitude were pretty 

 exatftly determined ; particularly the harbour of Samga- 

 noodha in Oonalaflika, which mud be looked upon as a 

 fixed point. This group of idands may be faid to extend 

 as far at Halibut Ides, which are forty leagues from Oona- 

 laflika 



