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1778. fixed to his book; but from Dr. Campbell’s account of it in 
September. e( q t i on of Harris’s Collection % and a map thereto an¬ 
nexed, which is both more circumftantial and accurate than 
that of Mr. Muller. 
The more I was convinced of my being now upon the 
coaft of Alia, the more I was at a lofs to reconcile Mr. Stseh- 
lin’s map of the New Northern Archipelago with my ob- 
fervations; and I had no way to account for the great dif¬ 
ference, but by fuppofing, that I had miftaken fome part of 
what he calls the Illand of Alafchka for the American con¬ 
tinent, and had miffed the channel that feparates them. 
Admitting even this, there would flill have been a con- 
fiderable difference. It was with me a matter of fome con- 
fequence, to clear up this point the prefent feafon, that I 
might have but one obje£t in view the next. And, as thefe 
Northern illes are reprefented by him as abounding with 
wood, I was in hopes, if I fhould find them, of getting a 
fupply of that article, which we now began to be in great 
want of on board. 
With thefe views, I fleered over for the American coaft; 
Saturday 5. and, at five in the afternoon, the next day, faw land bear¬ 
ing South three quarters Eafl, which we took to be Ander- 
fon’s Ifland, or fome other land near it, and therefore did 
Sunday 6. not wait to examine it. On the 6th, at four in the morn¬ 
ing, we got fight of the American coaft near Sledge Ifland ; 
and at fix, the fame evening, this ifland bore North, 6° Eafl, 
ten leagues diflant; and the Eaflernmofl land in fight 
North, 49 0 Eafl. If any part of what I had fuppofed to be 
American coaft, could poflibly be the ifland of Alafchka, 
it was that now before us; and in that cafe, I mull have 
miffed the channel between it and the main, by fleering to 
* Vol. ii. p, ioi6 , &c. 
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