APPENDIX I. 



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and that fomc of the Fox Iflands were fituated in lati- 

 tude 6 1, as they are laid down upon the general map 

 of Rullia. But according to fubfequent information, 

 the Andreanoffsky Hies lie between the Aleutian and the Pofition of tr.= 



Andreanoffsky 



Fox Iflands, and complete the conne»5tion between ''^"' 

 Kamtchatka and America*. Their chain is fuppofed to 

 begin in about latitude c,2n near the molt Eafterly of the 

 Aleutian liles, and to extend in a Icattered feries towards 

 the Fox lllands. The mod North Eafterly of thefe 

 illands are faid to be fo near the moft Southerly of the 

 Fox Iflands, that they feem occafionally to have been 

 taken for them. An inftance of this occurs in p 6 r 

 and 62 of this work; where Atchu and Amlach are 

 reckoned among the Fox Illands. It is however more 

 probable, that they are part of the group called by the 

 Aleutian chief Negho t, and known to the RufRans 

 under the name" of Andreanoffsky Iflands, becaufe they 

 were fuppofed to have been firft difcovered by Andrean 

 Tolftyk, whofe voyage is related in the feventh chap- 

 ter of the Firft Part. 



I take this opportunity of adding, that the anonymous Number of the 



Aleutian Ifi'---i. 



author, in defcribing the Aleutian Ifles, both in the 

 firft and laft chapter of the account of the Ruffian 



* P. 58. Some of the remoter illands are faid to be E. S. E. of the 

 Aleutian Illes ; thefe mull be either part of the Andreanoffsky Ifles, or 

 the mofl: Southerly of the Fox Iflands. 



•f See N° VIII. of this Appendix. 



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