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N" V. 



Pofitlon of the AnclreanofFsky Illes ajcertained — Number 



of the Aleutian Illes. 



TT 7 HEN the anonymous author publiflied his ac- 

 count of the Ruffian Difcoveries in 1766, the 

 pofition of the AnclreanofFsky Ifles was not afcertained. 

 It was generally fuppofed, that they formed part of that 

 clufter of iflands, which Synd* fell in with in his voy- 

 age towards Tfchukotfkoi Nofs ; and Buffon t reprefents 

 them to be the fame with thofe laid down in Staehlin's 

 chart, under the name of Anadirsky Ifles. The ano- 

 nymous author in the paffage here referred to, fuppofes 

 them to be N. E. of the Aleutian Ifles ; '■'• at the diftance 

 " of 600 or 800 verfts ; that their direction is probably 

 " Eaft and Well, and that fome of them may unite 

 " with that part of the Fox Iflands which are moll 

 " contiguous to the oppofite continent." This conjec- 

 ture was advanced upon a fuppofition that the 

 AndreanolFsky Ifles lay near the coall of the Tfchutski ; 



* See N" IX. of this Appendix. 



\ Ifles Anadyr ou Andrien. Snpp. vol. V. p. 591. 



and 



