526 A VOYAGE TO 
i 77 8. South to South South Weft, four leagues diftant. The Ion- 
°^\ gitude by the time-keeper was 191 0 17', and the latitude 
53 ° 38"* This will give a very different fituation to this 
ifland from that afligned to it upon the Ruffian map. Rut it 
muft be remembered, that this is one of the iflands which 
Mr. Ifmyloff faid was wrong placed. Indeed it is a doubt 
if this be Amoghta * ; for after Ifmyloff had made the cor¬ 
rection, no land appeared upon the map in this latitude 
but, as I have obferved before, we muft not look for accu¬ 
racy in this chart. 
At eleven o’clock, as we were fteering to the North Eaft, 
we difcovered an elevated rock, like a tower, bearing North 
North Eaft half Eaft, four leagues diftant. It lies in the 
latitude of 53 0 57', and in the longitude of 191 0 2', and hath 
no place in the Ruffian map t. We muft have paffed very 
near it in the night. We could judge of its fteepnefs from 
this circumftance, that the fea, which now run very high, 
broke no where but againft it. At three in the afternoon, 
after getting a fight of Oonalaffika, we ffiortened fail, and 
hauled the wind, not having time to get through the paf- 
Friday 30. fage before night. At day-break the next morning, we 
bore away under courfes, and clofe-reefed top-fails, having 
a very hard gale at Weft North Weft, with heavy fqualls, 
attended with know. At noon, we were in the middle of 
* On the chart of Krenitzen’s and Levafheff’s voyage, in 1768 and 1769, which we 
find in Mr. Coxe’s book, p. 251. an ifland called Amuckta, is laid down, not very far 
from the place affigned to Amoghta by Captain Cook. 
•f Though this rock had no place in the Ruffian map produced by Ifmyloff,, it has a 
place in the chart of Krenitzen’s and Levafheff’s voyage, above referred to. That chart 
alfo agrees with Captain Cook’s, as to the general pofition of this group of iflands. The 
fingularly indented fhores of the ifland of Oonalafhka are reprefented in both charts much 
alike. Thefe circumftances are worth attending to, as the more modern Ruffian maps 
of this Archipelago are fo wonderfully erroneous. 
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