a84 APPENDIX L 



5. Carte du noiivel Archipel du Nord decouvert 

 paries Ruffes dans la nier de Kamtchatka et d'Anadir. 



This chart is prefixed to Mr. Stx'hiin's account of the 

 New Northern Archipelago. In the Engliih tranllation 

 it is called, A Map of the New Northern Archipelago, 

 difcovered hy the Ruffians in the feas of Kamtchatka 

 and Anadyr» It differs from the laft mentioned chart 

 only in the fize and pofition of a few of the iflands,. 

 and in the addition of five or fix new ones, and is 

 equally incorrefl. The New Difcovered lilands are 

 claffed in this chart into three groups, which are called 

 the Ifles of Anadyr *, the Olutorian t Ifles, and the Ale- 

 utian Ifles. The two laft mentioned charts are alluded 

 to, p. 2 6 of this work. 



6. An 



" nent of America (which Is reprefented as lying near the coaft of 



" Tfchutfki) to a greater diftancc. Synd, who is more to be trufted. 



" than the Promyfchlenics, perfilts in the old fyftem. He places Ame- 



*' rica as near as before to Tfchukotfkoi Nofs, but knows nothing of a 



*•' large ifland called Alallika, which takes up the place of the conti- 



*' nent, and which ought to be laid down much more to the South or 



" South Eaft." 



* Monfieur Buffon has adopted the apeliation and erroneous repre- 

 fentation of the ifles of Anadyr, in his Carte de deux regions Polaires, 

 lately publifhed. See Supplement a I'Hifl. Nat. vol. V. p. 615. 



•j- The Olotorian Ifles are fo named from the fmall river of Olotora, 

 which flows into the fea at Kamtchatka, about latitude 61°. The fol- 

 lowing 



