is very narrow, fhallow, and only to be navigated through 
with boats, or very fmall veffels. 
It appeared by the chart, as well as by the teftimony of 
Ifmyloff and the other Ruffians, that this is as far as their 
countrymen have made any difcoveries, or have extended 
themfelves, fince Beering’s time. They all faid, that no 
Ruffians had fettled themfelves fo far to the Eaft as the place 
where the natives gave the note to Captain Clerke ; which 
Mr. Ifmyloff, to whom I delivered it, on perufing it, faid, had 
been written at Oomanak. It was, however, from him that 
we got the name of Kqdiak *, the largeft of Schumagin’s 
I Hands ; for it had no name upon the chart produced by him. 
The names of all the other iflands were taken from it, and 
we wrote them down as pronounced by him. He faid, they 
were all fuch as the natives themfelves called their iflands 
by; but, if fo, fome of the names feem to have been 
ftrangely altered. It is worth obferving, that no names were 
put to the iflands which Ifmyloff told us were to be ffruck 
out of the chart; and I confidered this as fome confirma¬ 
tion that they have no exiftence. 
I have already obferved, that the American continent is 
here called, by the Ruffians, as well as by the illanders, 
Alafchka; which name, though it properly belong only to 
the country adjoining to Oonemak, is ufed by them when 
fpeaking of the American continent in general, which they 
know perfectly well to be a great land. 
This is all the information I got from thefe people, relat¬ 
ing to the geography of this part of the world; and I have 
reafon to believe that this was all the information they were 
* A Ruffian fhip had been at Kodiak, in 1776*, as appears from a MS. obligingly 
communicated by Mr. Pennant. 
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