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we bore away, the land extended from Eaft by South half 177s. 



South to South South Weft, four leagues diftant. The Ion- ^ -,- j 



gitude by the time-keeper was 191° 17', and the latitude 53* 



58'. This will give a very diiFerent fituation to this ifland 



from that afligned to it upon the Ruffian map. But it muft 



be remembered, that this is one of the iflands which Mr. 



IfmylofFfaid was wrong placed. Indeed it is a doubt if this 



be Amoghta* ; for after IfmylofT had made the correcT:ion^ 



no land appeared upon the map in this latitude ; but as I 



have obferved before, we mufl hot look for accuracy in this 



chart. 



At eleven o'clock, as we were fleering to the North Eaft, we 

 difcovered an elevated rock, like a tower, bearing North North 

 Eaft half Eaft, four leagues diftant. It lies in the latitude of 

 53° 57', and in the longitude of 191° 2', and hath no place 

 in the Ruffian mapf. We muft have pafled very near it in 

 the night. We could judge of its ftcepnefs from this cir- 

 cumftance, that the fea, which now run very high, broke 

 no where but againft it. At three in the afternoon, after 

 getting a fight of Oonalafhka, we fhortcncd fail, and hauled 

 the wind, not having time to get through the paflage before 

 night. At day-break the next morning, we bore away Friday zo, 

 under courfes, and clofe-reefcd topfails, having a very hard 

 gale at Weft North Weft, \yith heavy fqualls, attended with 

 fnow. Ac noon, we were in the middle of the ft:rait, be- 



* On the chart of Krenit7,en's and LevafliefF's voyage, in 1768 and 1769, which- 

 we find in Mr. Coxe's book, p. 251. an ifland called Amuckta, is laid down, not 

 very far from the pi ice afligned to Amoghta by Captain Cook. 



t Though this rock had no place in the Ruffian map produced bylfmylofF, it has a 

 place in the ch.irt of Krenitzen's and Levaflieft''s voyage, above referred to. That 

 chart alfo agrees with Captain Cook's, as to the general pofition of this group of 

 iflands. Tlie fingularly indented fliores of the ifland of Oonalafhka are reprefented in 

 both charts mucli alike. Thefe circumflances are worth attending to, as the more 

 modern Rufliian maps of this Archipelago are fo wonderfully erroneous, 



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