«77»- is" or 16“ o f longitude. This ifland is about eighteen leagues
'O a o h e f._ extent) jn the dire&ion o f Eail and W e il; and feems to
be the fame land which Beering fe ll in with, and named
Mount St. John. But there are no iflands about it, except two
inconfiderable ones, ly in g three or four leagues from the
Eail-end, in the direction o f Ea il North EaiL
We next come to a group, confiding o f fix or more Elands;
two o f which, Atghka and Amluk are tolerably la rg e ; and
in each o f them is a good harbour. T h e middle o f this
group lies in the latitude o f 52° 30', and 28” o f longitude
from Awatfka ; and its extent, Eail and Weil, is four degrees.
Theie are the iiles that Mr. Ifmyloff faid were to
be removed four degrees to the Eail, w hich is here done.
And in the fituation they have in m y chart, was a group,
eonfiiling o f ten fmall iflands, which, I was told, were
w ho lly to be ftruck o u t ; a n d a lfo two iilands ly in g between
them and the group to w hich Oonalaihka belongs. In
the place o f thefe two, an ifland called Amoghta (which in
the chart was fituated in th e latitude o f § 1” j p , and 4" o f
long itude to the Weil) was brought.
Nothing more need be faid to ih e w h o w erroneous the
fituation o f many o f thefe iflands may be ; and for which
I am in nowife accountable. But the pofition o f the largefl
g rou p , o f which Oonalaflika is one o f the principal iflands,
.and the only one in which there is a harbour, is not liable
to any fuch errors. Moil o f thefe iflands were faen by us ;
and confequently their latitude and longitude were pretty
exactly de te rmin ed; particularly the harbour o f Samga-
noodha in Oonalaihka, which muil be looked upon as a
fixed point. This group o f iflands may be faid to extend
.as far at Halibut Ifles, which are forty leagues from Oonala
ih k a
la ihka toward the Eail North Eail. Within thefe ifles, a
paffage was marked in Ifmyloff’s chart, communicating with
Briilol B a y ; which converts about fifteen leagues o f the
coait, that I had fuppofed to belong to the continent,
into an ifland, diflinguiihed by the name o f Ooneemak. This
paffage might eafily efcape us, as we were informed that it
is very narrow, ihallow, and only to be navigated through
with boats, or very fmall veffels.
I | | aPPeared by the chart, as well as by the teilimony o f
Ifmylofl and the other Ruffians, that this is as far as their
countrymen have made any difcoveries, or have extended
themfelves, fince Beering’s time. T h e y all faid, that no
Ruffians had fettled themfelves fo fa r to the Eail as the place
where the natives gave the note to Captain C le rk e ; 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 o f Kodiak *, the largeil o f Schumagin’s
Iflands ; for it had no name upon the chart produced by him.
The names o f all the other iflands were taken from it, and
w e wrote them down as pronounced by h im .. He faid, they
were all fuch as the natives themfelves called their iilands
b y ; but, i f fo, fome o f the names feem to have been
itrangely altered. It is worth obferving, that no names were
put to the iflands which Ifmyloff told us were to be ftruck
out o f the ch a r t ; and I confidered this as fome confirmation
that they have not exiftence.
I have already obferved, that the American continent is
here called, by the Ruffians, as well as ‘by the bflanders,
Alaichka ; w hich name, though it properly belong only to
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