500 
A VOYAGE TO 
1778. kets of the lily, or faranne root, which is defcribed at large 
October . o 
>_ _ 'j in the Hiftory of Kamtfchatka *. In the afternoon, Mr. If- 
myloff, after dining with Captain Clerke, left us with all 
his retinue, promifmg to return in a few days. According- 
Monday 19. ly> on the 19th, he made us another viflt, and brought with 
him the charts before mentioned, which he allowed me to 
copy; and the contents of which furnifh matter for the fol¬ 
lowing obfervations. 
There were two of them, both manuferipts, and bearing 
every mark of authenticity. The firlt comprehended the 
Penjcbinjkian Sea ; the coaft of Tartary, as low as the latitude 
of 41 0 ; the Kuril illancls; and the peninfula of Kamtfchatka. 
Since this map had been made, Wawfeelee Irkeechoff, Cap¬ 
tain of the fleet, explored, in 1758, the coaft of Tartary, 
from Okotik, and the river Amur, to Japan, or 41 0 of lati¬ 
tude. Mr. Ifmyloff alfo informed us, that great part of the 
fea-coaft of the peninfula of Kamtfchatka had been cor¬ 
rected by himfelf; and defcribed the inftrument he made 
ufe of, which muft have been a theodolite. He alfo inform¬ 
ed us, that there were only two harbours fit for fliipping, 
on all the Eaft coaft of Kamtfchatka, viz. the bay of Aw at - 
Jka , and the river Olutora , in the bottom of the Gulf of the 
fame name; that there was not a Angle harbour upon its 
Weft coaft; and that Yamfk was the only one 011 all the 
Weft fide of the Penfchinfkian Sea, except Okotfk, till we 
come to the river Amur. The Kuril Ill adds afford only one 
harbour; and that is on the North Eaft fide of Mareekan, 
in the latitude of 47f°; where, as I have before obferved, 
the Ruffians have a fettlement. 
The fecond chart was, to me, the moft interefting; for it 
comprehended all the Difcoveries made by the Ruffians to 
* EnglifhTranflation, p. 83, 84, 
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