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Bngliiri miles. As I had forgotten to 
queftion our failors concerning the lize 
of the ifland, fo for fome information I 
was obliged to confult the Map which had 
been laid before them on their return 
home, and which has been fince fent me 
from Archangel. In this they had pointed 
out the place of their exile, fhewed the 
very fpot where they conceived their hut 
to fland, and had marked it with the 
itroke of a pen. 
As a proof that our mariners had not- 
been mistaken in the fituation of this 
ifland, I fhall lay before my readers what 
Mr. Vernezobre communicated to me 
in one of his letters. 
" The captain of a galliot, called the 
** Nicholas and Andrew, belonging to 
" Count Peter Iwanowitsch Schu- 
iC walow, Wintered in Malay Brown, in 
Kl the year 1749. As he arrived there 
" foon after the departure of our failors, 
" he found the hut in which they had 
"'lived 
