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oaJbe'r *^^ country adjoining to Ooncmak, is ufed by them when 

 fpeaking of the American continent in general,, which they 

 know pcrfedly well to be a great land. 



This is all the information I got from thefe people, relat- 

 ing to the geography of this part of the world ; and I have 

 reafon to believe that this was all the information they were 

 able to give. For they alfured me, over and. over again, 

 that they knew of no other iflands, befides thofe which 

 were laid down upon this chart; and that no Ruffian had 

 ever feen any part of the continent of America to the North- 

 ward, except that which lies oppofite the country of the 

 Tfchutlkis. 



If Mr. Sta?hlin was not grofsly impofed upon, what could 

 induce him to publifli a map, fo Angularly erroneous ; and 

 in which many of thcfc iflands are jumbled together in re- 

 gular confufion, without the leaf!; regard to truth - And yet, 

 he is pleafed to call it n '•eery accurate little map *. Indeed, it 

 is a map to which the moll illiterate of his illiterate fea- 

 faring countrymen would have been afliamed to fet his 

 name. 



Mr. Ifmylolt remained with us till the 2ifl, in the even- 

 ing, when he took his final leave. To his care I intrufled a 

 letter to the Lords Commiflicncrs of the Admiralty ; in which 

 v/as inclofed a chart of all the Northern coafls I had vifued. 

 He faid there would be an opportunity of fending it to 

 K.imtfchatka, or Okotlk, the enfuing fpring; and that it 

 would be at Peterlbm-g the following winter. He gave me 

 a letter to Major Bchm, Governor of Kamtfchatka, who re- 

 fi-dcs at Bolfcheretfk ; and another to the commanding Of- 



* Stxhlin's New Northern Archipelago, p. 15. 



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