64 letter from Arcticus. — May 16, 
ged to make his cruise alone, from which he returs 
ned last year, and is supposed to have sailed again 
this year; he may pofsibly build another consort 
in place of the one lost, on the continent of America, 
where wood proper for the purpose is so plentiful. 
Since the publication of the valuable voyages and 
maps of captain Cook, and his able afsistants, a-chart 
has been given in Rufsia of these seas, coasts, We. 
so well surveyed by that great seaman, wherever he: 
could penetrate. The principal changes I have re- 
marked, are, thatthe island captain Cook called Clerk’s, 
and the Rufsians, Sind’s, from the first discoverers, is’ 
not one, but a group of islands, composed of one great, 
and five small ; a circumstance which the Britifh na- 
vigator’s course and distance did not permit him to. 
ascertain. ‘ The other principal differences between 
the Rufsian and Britifh charts are,that partof the coast 
of America, forming a triangle, bounded on Cook’s: 
maps by Point Banks, Cape Grenville, and Gape Tri- 
nity, is an island, named by the Rufsians Kihtak, se- 
parated from the continent by navig»ble straits, affor- 
ding good harbours mn their course.. The Rufsians 
not only.afsert that they had a place of trade at 
Kihtak (discovered to be an island by Imuloff whom 
Cook saw at Alaska,) but that they saw from their 
station his vefsel pafs hy, when he first surveyed it, 
and that their trade is, and was, carried on with a 
people called Kenai, who came down Cook’s river for 
that purpose. 
lf this be admitted, it will account in a much easier 
and fhorter manner for the iron, and European beads: 
found with the people of that part of the coast of 
