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6. An excellent map of the Empire of Ruffia, pub- 

 lifhed by the geographical department of the Academy 

 of Sciences at St. Peterfburg in 1776, comprehends tlie 

 greateft part of the New Difcovered Iflunds. A reduced 

 copy of this chart being prefixed to this work, I iliall 

 only mention the authorities from whence the com- 

 pilers have laid down the New Difcovered Iflands» 

 The Aleutian illes are partly taken from Beering's 

 chart, partly from "••■ Otcheredin's, whofe voyage is related 

 in the eleventh chapter, and partly from other MS. 



lowing remarks upon this group of iflands are taken from a letter of 

 Mr. MuUcr mentioned in the lafl note. " This appellation of Olu- 

 *' torian Ifles is not in ufe at Kamtchatka. Thefe iflands, called upon 

 " this chart Olutorians, lie according to the chart of the Promyfchle- 

 " nics, aiid' the chart of the Academy, very remote from the river Olu- 

 " tora : and it feems as if they were advanced upon this chart nearer 

 " to Kamtchatka only in favour of the name. They cannot be fitu- 

 *' ated fo near that coaft, becaufe they were neither feen by Bcering 

 " in 1728, nor by the PEomyfchlenics, NovikofF and Bacchoft", when 

 " they failed in 1748 from the Anadyr to Beering's Ifland." See p. ^2.. 



* I have a MS. copy of Otcheredin's chart in my pofleflion ; but as 

 the Fox Iflands, in the general Map of Ruflia, are copied from thence, 

 the reader will find them laid down upon the reduced map prefixed to 

 this work. The anonymous author of the account of the Ruffian Dif- 

 coveries, of whofe work I have given a tranflation in Part I. feems to 

 have followed, in molt particulars, Otcheredin's chart and journal for 

 the longitude, latitude, fize, and pofition of the New Difcovered Iflands.. 

 For this reafon, I flioukl have had his chart engraved if the Fox Iflands- 

 upon the general map had not been taken from thence : there feemed 

 no occafion therefore for increafing the expence of this work, already 

 too great from the number of charts, by the addition, of another not 

 abfolutely necelTary. 



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