THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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the Eaftward of Kamtfchatka, toward America; which, if 
we exclude the voyage of Beering and TfcherikofF, will 
amount to little or nothing. The part of the American 
coaft, with which the latter fell in, is marked in this chart, 
between the latitude of 58° and 581°, and 75 0 of longitude 
from Okotlk, or 218f° from Greenwich; and the place 
where the former anchored, in 591° of latitude, and 631° 
of longitude from Okotlk, or 207° from Greenwich. To 
fay nothing of the longitude, which may be erroneous from 
many caufes, the latitude of the coaft, difcovered by thefe 
two navigators, efpecially the part of it difcovered by 
TfcherikofF, differs conftderably from the account publilh- 
ed by Mr. Muller, and his chart. Indeed, whether Muller’s 
chart, or this now produced by Mr. Ifmyloff, be moft erro¬ 
neous in this refpecft, it may be hard to determine ; though 
it is not now a point worth difcufling. But the iflands that 
lie difperfed between 52 0 and 55 0 of latitude, in the fpace 
between Kamtfchatka and America, deferve fome notice. 
According to Mr.Ifmyloff’s account, neither the number nor 
the lituation of thefe iflands is well afcertained. He ftruck 
out about one third of them, alluring me they had no exift- 
ence; and he altered the lituation of others conftderably; 
which, he faid, was neceffary, from his own obfervations. 
And there was no reafQn to doubt about this. As thefe 
iflands lie all nearly under the fame parallel, different navi¬ 
gators, being milled by their different reckonings, might 
eaftly miftake one ifland, or group of iflands, for another; 
and fancy they had made a new difcovery, when they had 
only found old ones in a different pofttion from that afftgned 
to them by their former viftters. 
The iflands of St. Macarius, St. Stephen, St. Theodore, 
St. Abraham, Seduction Ifland, and fome others, which are 
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1778. 
October, 
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