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It is for the moft part a copy of a manufcript chart 

 known in Ruffia by the name of the chart of the Promy- 

 llilenics, or merchant adventurers, and which was 

 Iketched from the mere reports of perfons who had failed 

 to the New Difcovered Iflands. As to the fize and po- 

 fition of the New Difcovered Iflands, this chart of the 

 Academy is extremely erroneous: it is however free 

 from the above-mentioned miltake, which runs through 

 all the former charts, namely, the reprefenting of the 

 coaft of America, between 50 and 60 degi'ees of lati- 

 tude, as contiguous to Kamtchatka. It likewife re- 

 moves that part of the fame continent lying in latitude 

 66, from 210° longitude to 224°, and in its ftead lays 

 <3own a large ifland, which ftretches between latitude 

 64° and 71° 30', from 207° longitude to 218% to 

 within a fmall diftance of both continents. But whe- 

 ther this latter alteration be equally juftifiable or not, 

 is a queftion, the decifion of which muft be left to fu- 

 ture navigators -. 



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* Mr, Muller has long ago acknowledged, in the mofl candid and 

 public manner, the incorredlnefs of the former chart, as far as it relates 

 to the part which reprcfents America, as contiguous to Kamtchatka : 

 but he ftill maintains his opinion concerning the aftual vicinity of the 

 two continents in an higher latitude. The following quotation is taken 

 from, a letter written by Mr. Muller, in 1774, of which I have a copy 

 in my poffeffion. " Pofterity muft judge if the new chart of the Aca- 

 " demy is to be preferred to the former one for removing the conti- 



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