THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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We next come to a group, confifting of fix or more iflands; 
two of which, Atghka and Amluk are tolerably large; and 
in each of them is a good harbour. The middle of this 
group lies in the latitude of 52 0 30', and 28° of longitude 
from Awatlka; and its extent, Eaft and Weft, is four de¬ 
grees. Thefe are the illes that Mr. Ifmyloff faid were to 
be removed four degrees to the Eaft, which is here done. 
And in the lituation they have in my chart, was a group, 
confuting of ten fmall iflands, which, I was told, were 
wholly to be ftruck out; and alfo two iflands lying between 
them and the group to which Oonalafhka belongs. In the 
place of thefe two, an ifland called Amoghta (which in the 
chart was fituated in the latitude of 51 0 45', and 4 0 of lon- 
. gitude to the Weft) was brought. 
Nothing more need be faid to fhew how erroneous the 
fituation of many of thefe iflands may be ; and for which 
I am in no wife accountable. But the pofition of the largeft 
group, of which Oonalafhka is one of the principal iflands, 
and the only one in which there is a harbour, is not liable 
to any fuch errors. Moll of thefe iflands were feen by us; 
and confequently their latitude and longitude were pretty 
exactly determined; particularly the harbour of Samga- 
noodha in Oonalafhka, which muft be looked upon as a 
fixed point. This group of iflands may be faid to extend 
as far as Halibut Ifles, which are forty leagues from Oona¬ 
lafhka toward the Eaft North Eaft. Within thefe illes, a 
paffage was marked in Ifmyloff’s chart, communicating with 
Briftol Bay; which converts about fifteen leagues of the 
coaft, that I had fuppofed to belong to the continent, into 
an ifland, diftinguifhed by the name of Qoneemak. This 
paffage might eafily efcape us, as we were informed that it 
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1778. 
Oftober. 
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