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1773. to be found in Mr. Muller’s chart, had no place in this now 
oaoher^ produced to us; nay, both Mr. Ifmyloff, and the others, af- 
fured me, that they had been feveral times fought for in 
vain. And yet it is difficult to believe, how Mr. Muller, 
from whom fubfequent map-makers have adopted them, 
could place them in his chart without fome authority. Re¬ 
lying, however, on the teftimony of thefe people, whom X 
thought competent witnelfes, I have left them out of my 
chart; and made fuch corrections amongft the other illands 
as I was told was necelfary. I found there was wanting 
another correction; for the difference of longitude, between 
the Bay of Aivatfka, and the harbour of Samganoodha, 
according to aftronomical obfervations, made at thefe two 
places, is greater by five degrees and a half, than it is by 
the chart. This error I have fuppofed to be infufed through¬ 
out the whole, though it may not be fo in reality. There 
was alfo an error in the latitude of fome places; but this 
hardly exceeded a quarter of a degree. 
I Hi all now give fome account of the iflands; beginning 
with thofe that lie neareft to Kamtfchatka, and reckoning 
the longitude from the harbour of Petropaulowlka, in the 
Bay of Awatlka. The firft is Beering's IJkmd , in 55 0 of la¬ 
titude, and 6° of longitude. Ten leagues from the South 
■end of this, in the direction of Eaff by South, or Eaft South 
Eaft, lies Maidenoi OJtroff, or the Copper Ifland. The next 
illand is Atakou , laid down in 52 0 45 / of latitude, and in 15 0 
or 16° of longitude. This illand is about eighteen leagues 
in extent, in the direction of Eaft and Weft; and feems to 
be the fame land which Beering fell in with, and named 
Mount St.John. But there are no iflands about it, except two 
inconfiderable ones, lying three or four leagues from the 
Eaft end, in the direction of Eaft North Eaft. 
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