ALEUTIAN, ANDREAN, AND FOX ISLANDS. 
quake. Among the float-wood off this ifland is camphor, and another {weet 
wood, driven by the currents from the ifle of Fapan. 
The Aleutian group lies in the bend of the crefcent, nearly in mid-channel be- 
tween Afiaand America, lat. 52. 30, and about two hundred verfts diftant from 
Mednoi. It confifts of Attok, Schemija, and Semitchi. The firft feems to fur- 
pafs in fize Bering’s ifle; but refembles it in its component parts, as do the 
other two. Aitok feems to be the ifland which Bering called Mount St. ‘ohn. 
Thefe are inhabited by a people who fpeak a language different from the northern 
Afiatics ; they feem emigrants or colonifts from America, ufing adiale& of the 
neighboring continent. They were difcovered in 1745, by Michael Nevodtfikoff, 
a native of Tobol/Ri, who made a voyage, at the expence of certain merchants, 
in fearch of furs, the great object of thefe navigations, and the leading caufe of 
difcoveries in this fea. This voyage was marked with horrid barbarities on the 
poor natives. The marine animals muft have {warmed about this period, and 
for fome time after. Mention is made of adventurers who brought from hence 
to Kamt/chatka the fkins of 1,872 Sea Otters, g40 females, and 715 cubs. Another, 
ona fmall adjacent ifle, killed 700 old, and 12@ cub Sea Otters, 1,900 blue Foxes, 
5,700 black Urfine Seals, and 1,310 of their cubs *. The blue Foxes abound in 
thefe iflands, brought here on floating ice, and multiply greatly. The blue 
variety is ten times more numerous here than the white; but the reverfe is ob- 
ferved in Sibiria. They feed on fifth, or any carrion left by the tide. The natives 
bore their under lips, and infert in them teeth cut out of the bones of the Walrus ; 
and they ufe boats covered with the fkins of fea animals. 
At a great diftance from the firft group is the fecond, or fartheft Aleutian ifles : 
of thofe we know no more than that the natives refemble thofe of the firft. By 
the vaft {pace of fea which Doctor Pattas allows between the two groups, 
Captain Cook is fully vindicated for omitting, in his chart, the multitude of 
iflands which, in the Ruffian maps, form almoft a complete chain from Berina’s 
ifle to America. Dr. Pauxas’s information muft have been ef the beft kind; 
and he and our illuftrious navigator coincide in opinion, that they have been 
needlefsly multiplied, by the miftake of the Ruffian adventurers in the reckoning, 
or, on feeing the fame ifland in different points of view, putting it down as 
a new difcovery, and impofing on it anew name. The Andreanoffshie, fo called 
from their difcoverer (in 1761) Andrean Tolftyk, fucceed. On two of them are 
vulcanoes. Laftly, are the Fox iflands, fo called from the number of black, grey, 
and red Foxes found on them; the fkins of which are fo coarfe, as to be of little 
* Coxe’s Ruff. Difc. 
6 2 value. 
CXXXV 
ALEuTIAN IsLes, 
Tue NEAREST. 
ALEUTIAN IsxeEs. 
THE FARTHESTe 
Awprean Istes. 
Fox Isues. 
