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CHAP. II. 



Voyages in i^ ^^.•-^Firjl difcovery of the Aleutian Ifles by 

 Michael NevodtfikofF. 



\ Voyage made in the year 1745 by Emilian BafTofF 

 -^ -^ is fcarce worth mentioning ; as he only reached 

 Beering's Ifland, and two fmaller ones, which lie South 

 of the former, and returned on the 3 1 ft of July, 1 746. 



The firft voyage which is in any wife remarkable, was voyage of 

 undertaken in the year 1745. The veflel was a Shitik '" '^'^5- 

 named Eudokia, fitted out at the expence of Aphanaflei 

 Tfebaefskoi, Jacob TliuprofFand others ; Ihe failed from 

 the Kamtchatka river Sept. 1 9, under the command of 

 Michael NevodtfikofF a native of Tobolfk. Having dif- 

 covered three unknown iflands, they wintered upon one cifcovers the 



Aleutian 



of them, in order to kill fea-otters, of which there was i*^^"*^^- 

 a large quantity. Thefe iflands were undoubtedly the 

 neareft * Aleutian Iflands : the language of the inhabi- 



* The fmall group of iflands lying S. E. of Beering's Ifland, are the 

 real Aleiitian ifles : they are fometimes called the Nearcfl Aleutian Iflands j 

 and the Fox Iflands the Furthefl: Aleutian Ifles. 



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