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able to give. For they allured me, over and over again, 
that they knew of no other illands, betides thofe which 
were laid down upon this chart; and that no Ruffian had 
ever feen any part of the continent of America to the North¬ 
ward, except that which lies oppofite the country of the 
Tfchutfkis. 
If Mr. Staehlin was not grofsly impofed upon, what could 
induce him to publifh a map fo Angularly erroneous ; and 
in which many of thefe illands are jumbled together in re¬ 
gular confufion, without the lead; regard to truth ? And yet, 
he is pleated to call it a very accurate little map Indeed, 
it is a map to which the mod illiterate of his illiterate Tea- 
faring countrymen would have been alhamed to fet his 
name. 
Mr. IfmylofF remained with us till the 2id, in the even¬ 
ing, when he took his final leave* To his care I intruded a 
letter to the Lords Commiffioners .of the Admiralty; in 
which was inclofed a chart of all the Northern coads I had 
vifited. He faid there would be an opportunity of fending 
it to Kamtfchatka, or Okotlk, the enfuing fpring ; and that 
it would be at Peterffiurg the following winter. He gave 
me a letter to Major Behm, Governor of Kamtfchatka, who 
refides at Bolfcheretlk; and another to the commanding 
Officer at Petropaulowlka. Mr. IfmylofF feemed to have 
abilities that might entitle him to a higher dation in 
life, than that in which we found him. He was tolerably 
well verfed in adronomy, and in the mod uleful branches 
of the mathematics. I made him a prefent of an Hadley’s 
octant; and though, probably, it was the fird he had ever 
feen, he made himfelf acquainted, in a very Ihort time, with 
mod of the ufes to which that indrument can be applied. 
* Stshlin’s New Northern Archipelago, p. 15. 
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1778. 
October. 
Wednef. 21. 
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