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ftrong from this quarter, that we were forced to clofe-reeve i m- 



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again ; and, at noon, the wind Ihifting two points to the 

 Weft, rendered it vain to keep any longer on this tack. We 

 therefore put about, and fleered to the Southward. At this 

 time, our latitude, by obfervation, was 44* 12', and longi- 

 tude 150* 40' ; fo that, after all our efforts, we had the mor- 

 tification to find ourfelves, according to the Ruffian charts, 

 upon a meridian with Nadeegfda, which they make the 

 Southernmoft of the Kurile iflands, and about twenty 

 leagues to the Southward. 



But, though the violent and contrary winds we had met 

 with during the laft fix days, prevented our getting in with 

 thefe iflands, yet the courfe we had been obliged to hold, is 

 not without its geographical advantages. For the group of 

 iflands, confiding of the Three Sillers, Kunafhir and Zel- 

 lany, which, in D'Anville's maps, are placed in the track 

 we hadjuft crofled; being, by this means, demonftratively 

 removed from that fituation, an additional proof is obtained 

 of their lying to the Weftward, where Spanberg actually 

 places them, between the longitude 142* and 147°. But as this 

 fpace is occupied, in the French charts by part of the fup- 

 pofed land of Jefo and Staten Ifland, Mr. Mullcr's opinion be- 

 comes extremely probable, that they are all the fame lands ; 

 and as no reafons appear for doubting Spanberg's accuracy, 

 we have ventured, in our general map, to reinftate the 

 Three Sifters, Zellany, and Kunafhir, in their proper fitua- 

 tion, and have entirely omitted the reft. When the Reader 

 recollects the manner in which the Ruffians have multiplied 

 the iflands of the Northern Archipelago, from the want of 

 accuracy in determining their real fituation, and the defire 

 men naturally feel of propagating new difcoveries, he will 

 not be furprized, that the fame caufes mould produce the 

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