FOX 
Fox.  « Letter to the Electors of Westminster,” published in 
aeegeet 17095 the composition of which he is understood 
ome canta ke aered oebediclenahelsttenticks:; his correspon- 
writers ; afew 
Memoir of his 
of the Reign of James II.,”? left unfinished, and 
published after his death, remain'as monuments of his 
istingui talents, and testimonies of his relish for 
To the introductory chapter, 
to the last mentioned work, 
we must refer our readers for more minute information 
determinate. ~ aparece, aa 
admirers, who much of his i , during 
the last eight years of his life, who a his sick- 
bed, and witnessed his last moments, positively affirms 
Mr Fox’s belief of Christianity, and denies othe alight 
heard him utter a single expression, or give ight- 
cat indieation of doukt or disbelief of ite truth, At the 
same time, while he describes Mr Fox’s whole demea~ 
nour during his pai Snes eerie te tree reer 
not of stoic i patient resignation to 
Divine Providence, he has not recorded any direct al- 
one of his friends, «* What do-you think, my Lord, of 
the state of the soul after death ?” and to have 
* ed to observe, ‘ I should have believed in the immor- 
ed; but how fac when bo me eo 
capacity This, however, 
boon by Chretien” ‘One is certain, that both 
in private life, and whenever he touched upon religious 
fe con kal meeps een used the 
of reverence, and shewed.that he sacred the right 
of private j ent in 3 avoided giving offence 
to religious or eyen , and testified 
pect to every scruple onthe subject, which was 
tral cone conscientious. ‘“ On the score of ” says 
Mr ' who describes Mr Fox’s demeanour in his 
Sat at apn oh Spal 
tolerate, w ied to ition 
on sacred matters, but was truly denignant, for he con- 
Sielateathigy andthe ade pomaaaanr of siphons 
p> possession 
es ce eeruee to bs sontioelea by 
did not require the permission of others for this mental 
enjoyment, and that all were entitled to honour the 
Sein to Mr Fox’s History ¢: 
‘To Memoirs of the latter Years of Mr Fox ; and 
Tife of Mr Fox, in the Christiaw Observer, vols, vi. and 
4) ’ : 
‘VOL IX, PART I. 
537 
FOX 
FOX Istanps. .A great chain of islands stretcltes 
across that part of the North Pacific Ocean bounded _!*!nds. 
by the peninsula of. Kamtschatka on the Asiatic conti- 
nent, and that of Alaska in North America. The first jyistory, 
of — a the west, was disco ee in me — 
part. eighteenth century, by Capt. Vitus Behring, 
a Dane dn Hiss Rowsiath Aorsicuertl suatrind after him ; 
and the second, twenty-seven miles from it to the east, 
was called Copper Island. Both were greatly fre- 
uented by the Russians, on account of the valuable 
obtained from the animals of the surround- 
ing seas; and a company of adventurers from Kamt- 
ochatha having prosecuted farther discoveries, ascer- 
tained, in the year 1745, that other islands lay farther 
to the east. Having wintered on one of them to kill 
sea otters, they continually. advanced farther on; and 
after various successes and discomfitures, at length, by 
means of intermediate islands, reached the American 
continent. This chain was known by different appel- 
lations bestowed on certain groups of it, which the 
progress of discovery proved were only a short way 
detached from the rest ; and they were in general divi- 
ded into the Aleutian, Andreanovi, and Fox Islands: 
but late navigators are di to include the whole 
chain under the name of Aleutian or Fox Islands ;,while 
it is sometimes proposed, though without any apparent 
good reason, to except Behring’s and Copper Island from 
the number. It is not difficult to anticipate, however, 
that this separation will soon be abandoned. The Fox 
Islands in position resemble a circular arc, extending 
from 165° to 195° of longitude east ; the’ most south- 
ern i lies in about 58° of north latitude, “and 
the most northern, at each extremity, in 55°. These 
islands are of all different sizes, below 104 miles in 
, Which is that of Behring’s Island, and are 
divided by channels of very unequal width. —'This last 
Fain iles from the harbour of St Peter and St Paul, 
in Island, which is mountain- 
ous, and twenty-five miles long, lies due east, and is the 
first of the Aleutian, or Fox Islands, ly so deno~ 
minated. Attoo is 60 miles in length, and 188 miles 
Copper Island: Next is me twenty miles 
distant, and six in length ; then Buldyr, an oval rock, 
six miles by ten, distant 70 miles; and so on, regarding 
the rest, to Omnak, Oonalashka, aes next 
. and Oon 
to Alaska. Some of these islands are disposed in clus- 
ters ; and the number of the Fox ‘Islands was 
to receive accessions: In the year 1795, a i 
ing obscured a rock which was the favourite resort of 
the Aleutians in their hunting excursions, thirty miles 
north-west of Oonalashka, they found the sea, on ap- 
proaching it, in a state of ebullition, and vast quanti- 
ties of vapour rising around. Concluding that it was 
haunted by evil spirits, no one would again venture 
thither during the lapse of five years, when a few more 
Sefict fee Shey tn we eke i 
up, re and smoke 
a crater in its seoeinits In the year 1806, this island 
had aug to about twenty miles in cireuit; lava 
frst ab to relade landing om that ptr ie 
as to landing on parti ide. 
There are pris: couke ‘oohaanadh: tis allir lth’ sitet 
these islands ; and Gthden, nee Rebireaatidire sind 
are now quiescent. Earthquakes are common from 
such subterraneous fires, and the concussions are violent. 
Huts were geet tea 1802, when a long-extin- 
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