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and 60 degrees of latitude, that Continent advances no 

 where nearer to Afia than the * coafts touched at by 

 Beering and Tfchirikoff, or about 236 degrees of longi- 

 tude. 



As to the New Difcovered Iflands, no credit mail be 

 given to a chart publiflied in the Geographical Calendar 

 of St. Peterlburg for 1774; in which they are inac- 

 curately laid down. Nor is the antient chart of the New 

 Difcoveries, publilhed by the Imperial Academy, and 

 which feems to have been drawn up from mere reports, 

 more defer ving of attention t. 



New 'oifco-'^'^ The late navigators give a far different defcription of 

 vered I amis. ^^^ Nortliem Arcliipelago. From their accounts we 

 learn, that Beering's Ifland is fituated dueEaft from Kamt- 

 chatkoi Nofs, in the 1 8 5th degree of longitude. Near it is 

 Copper Ifland ; and, at fome diftance from them, Eaft- 

 fouth-eaff, there are three fmall iflands, named by their 

 inhabitants, Attak, Semitflii, and Shemiya : thefe are 

 properly the Aleutian Ifles ; they ftretch from Weft- 

 north-weft towards Eafl-fouth-eaft, in the fame direction 

 as Beering's and Copper Iflands, in the longitude of 

 195, and latitude 54. 



* Appendix I. N° 11. 

 •f Appendix I. N° IV, 



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