TOYAGE To MADAGASCAR, 



confiderable diftance from that ifland, I 

 ** found the fea covered with ice, which 

 ** obliged me on the id of June to land at 

 ** the ifland of Akdar, fituated under the 

 ** Gxty-firft degree of latitude, and the twcn- 

 ** ty-fecond meridian from Kamfchatka. Oa 

 '* the 9th of June I again put to fea, and 

 ** diredmg my route towards the fouth-eaft, 

 ^* fell in, according to my reckoning, with 

 ** the point of the American continent, un- 

 ** der the fixtieth degree of latitude* and 

 ** the twenty-fixth meridian from Kam- 

 ** fchatka. Sailing then towards the fifty- 

 ** firft degree of latitude, on account of the 

 ** violence of the wind, I afterwards chang- 

 ** ed my courfe towards the fouth-weft ; 

 " and on the 20th of June arrived at an 

 ** ifland known to the Ruffians by the name 

 " of Urum-Sir^ or the ifland of X//, fituated 

 ** under the latitude of 53* 45', and diffant 

 " 15* 58' of longitude from Kamfchatka. 



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