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lifhed in the abovementioned calendar*; and feveral mif- 

 takes in that memoir are here corredted. 



* A German copy of the treatife alluded to in the text, was fent, by 

 its author, Mr. Stahlin Counfellor of State to the Emprefs of Ruffia, to 

 the late Dr. Maty ; and it is mentioned, in the Philofophical Tranfadtions 

 for 1774, under the following title: "A New Map and Preliminary 

 *' Defcription of the New Archipelago in the North, difcovered a few 

 " Years ago by the Ruffians in the N. E. beyond Kamtchatka." A 

 tranflation of this treatife was publifhed the fame year by Heydinger. 



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