love toaffociate with people whole manner of life refem-
bles their own.
Krenitzin and Levaiheff returned from this expedition
into the mouth of the Kamtchatka river in autumn
1769.
The chart which accompanies this journal was com-
pofed by the pilot Jacob YakofF, under the infpeftion of
the commanders y Krenitzin and Levaiheff. The track
of the St. Paul is marked both in going out and returning.
The harbour of the St. Paul in the illand Unalaffi-
ka and the ftraits of Alaxa, are laid down from obferva-
tions made during the winter 176 8 ; and the illands
connected by bearings and diftances taken during a cruife:
of the St. Paul twice repeated*
In this chart the variation is faid to be
In Lat. Long. Points
54° 40'. 2O4. 2 Eaft..
5* 20 201 ; if
S2 5°
H VO00
if _ j
S3 20 192 ,30 I
S3 40 188 I
54 5Q 182 30 of
SS 00 180 30
e Krenitzin was drowned foon after his return- to Kamtchatka in a
canoe belpnging to the natives.
N‘
1 I
N ° IX .
Concerning the.longitude o fKamtchatka, and of'the Eajlern
extremity of Alia, as laid down by the Ruffian Geo?
k I ^ H E important queftion concerning the longitude „ ^ ‘“xtrcme
of the: extreme parts of Alia has been fo differ-PartsofAflM
ently ftated by the molt: celebrated gêographérs, that it
may not be amifs to refer' the curious reader to thé
principal treatifes upon that fubject. Thé proofs by
which Mr. Muller and the Ruffian geographers place the b y M r . M u i -
, _ ler and the
longitude óf the Eaftern extremity o f Alia 0 ; •' ' ; R , beyond 200 gRraupnh,i earns G; eo'
degrees from the firft meridian of Féro, or x8o° 6' 15"
from Paris, are drawn from the obfervations of the fa-
tellites of Jupiter, made by Kraffilnikoff at Kamtchatka,
and in different parts o f Siberia, and from the expeditions
of the Ruffians by land and fea towards Tfchukot- •
Ikoi Nofs.
Mr. Engel calls in queftion. the exadmefs of thefe by Mr. Engu ,
obfervations, and takes off twenty-nine degrees from the
M 2 longitude