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and aifo rein-deers and wild dogs. To thefe proofs 

 drawn from natural hiftory, we muft add the reports of 

 a mountainous country covered with forefts, and of a 

 great promontory called Atachtak, lying ftill more to the 

 N. E. which were prevalent among the inhabitants of 

 Alakfu and Kadyak. 



Although thefe circumftances have been already men- 

 tioned *, yet I have thought proper to recapitulate them 

 here, in order to lay before the reader in one point of 

 view the feveral proofs advanced by the anonymous au- 

 thor, which feem to fliew, that the Fox Illands are lituated 

 near America. Many of them afford, beyond a doubt, 

 evident figns of a lefs open fea ; and give certain marks 

 of a nearer approach towards the oppolite continent. 

 But how far that dillance may be fuppofed, muft be 

 left to the judgment of the reader ; and remains to be 

 afcertained by fubfequent navigators. All that w'e know for 

 certain, is, that as far as any Ruffian veflels have hitherto 

 failed, a chain of iflands has been difcovered lying E. or 

 N. E. by E. from Kamtchatka, and ftretching towards 

 America. Part of this chain has only been touched at ; 

 the reft is unknown ; and all beyond is uncertainty 

 and conjecture. 



* See p. 68 and 69 — 116 — 118 — 170. 

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