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lafhka toward the Eaft North Eaft. Within thcfe illes, a '2~,^- 



Oflober. 



pafTage was marked in IfmylofF's chart, communicating with 

 Briflol Bay ; which converts about fifteen leagues of the 

 coafl, that I had fuppofed to belong to the continent, 

 into an ifland, diflinguiflied by the name of Oontemak. This 

 paflage might eafily efcape us, as we were informed that it 

 is very narrow, fliallow, and only to be navigated through 

 with boats, or very fmall vefTels. 



It appeared by the chart, as well as by the teflimony of 

 Ifmylofl' and the other Ruffians, that this is as far as their 

 countrymen have made any difcoveries, or have extended 

 themfelves, fince Beering's time. They all faid, that no 

 Ruffians had fettled themfelves fo far to the Eaft as the place 

 where the natives gave the note to Captain Clerke ; which 

 Mr. IfmylofT, to whom I delivered it, on perufing it, faid, had 

 been written at Oomanak. It was, however, from him that 

 we got the name of Kodiak *, the largeft of Schumagin's 

 Iflands ; for it had no name upon the chart produced by him. 

 The names of all the other iflands were taken from it, and 

 we wrote them down as pronounced by him. He faid, they 

 were all fuch as the natives themfelves called their iilands 

 by ; but, if fo, fome of the names fcem to have been 

 ftrangely altered. It is worth obferving, that no names were 

 put to the iflands which Ifmylofl' told us were to be ftruck 

 out of the chart ; and I confidered this as fome confirmation 

 that they have not exiftence. 



I have already obferved, tliat the American continent is 

 here called, by the Ruffians, as well as by the iflanders, 

 Aldfchka ; which name, though it properly belong only to 



* A Ru/lian fliip had been at Kcdiack, in 1776 ; as appears from a MS. obligingly 

 communicated by Mr. Pennant. 



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