284. A H i N' D I X I..
5. Carte du noiivel Archipel du Nord decouvert
paries Ruffes dans la mer de Kamtchatka- et d’Anadir.
This chart is prefixed to Mr. Stsehlin’S account of the
New Northern Archipelago. In the Englilh tranflation
it is called, A Map of the New Northern Archipelago',
difcovered by the Ruffians in the feas of Kamtchatka
arid Anadyr. It differs from- the Ta-ft mentioned chart
only-in the fize and pofition of a few of the iflands,,
and in the addition of five or fix new ones, and is
equally incorredf. The N-Cw Difcovered Iflands are
dafied in this chart into three groups, which are called
the Ifles of Anadyr*, the Olutoriant Ifles, and the Aleutian
ifles. The two laft mentioned charts are alluded
to, p. 26 of this work.
6. An
« nent o f America (which is reprefentcd as' lying near the coaft of
“ Tfchutfki) to a greater diftance. Synd, who is more to be, trailed:'
« than the Promyfchlenics, perfifts in the old fyftem.. He places Ame-
i r;ea as near as before to Tfchukotlkoi Nofs, but knows nothing of a.
'•< large illand called Alalhka, which takes up the place o f the conti-
w nent, and which ought to be laid down much more to the South or
“ South Eaft.”
* Monfieur Buffon has adopted the apellation and erroneous repre-
fentation o f the ifles o f Anadyr, in his Carte de deux regions Polaires,
lately publilhed. See Supplement a l’Hift. Nat. vol. V. p. 615.
-j- The Olotorian Ifles are fo named from the fmall river of Olotpra,
which flows into the fea at Kamtchatka, about latitude 6 T . The following
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6. An excellent map of the Empire of Ruffia, pub-
liflied by the geographical department of the Academy
of Sciences at St. Peterlburg in 1776, comprehends the
greateft part of the New Difcovered Iflands., A reduced
copy of this chart being prefixed to this work, I fliall
only mention the authorities from, whence the compilers
have laid down the New Difcovered Iflands.
The Aleutian ifles are partly taken from Beering’s
chart, partly from * Gtcheredin’s, whofe voyage is related
in the eleventh chapter, and partly from other MS.
lowing remarks upon this group o f iflands are taken from a letter .of
Mr. Muller mentioned in' the laft note. “ This appellation of Olu-
“ torian Ifles is not in ufe at Kamtchatka. Thefe iflands, called upon
«. this, chait Olutorians,. lie according to the , fhart of ,the Promyfchle-
“ n'ics, and the chart o f'the Academy, very remote from the river O lu-
“ thra : and it feems as i f they were advanced upon this chart nearer
“ to Kamtchatka only in favour of the name. They cannot be fitu-
“ ated fo near that coaft, becaufe they were neither feen by Beering
“ in 1728, nor by the Promyfchlenics, Novikoff and BacchofF, when
“ they failed in. 174.8 from.the Anadyr to Beering’s Ifland.” Seep. 42.,
* I have a MS. copy of Otcheredin’s chart in my pofleffion ; but as
the Fox Iflands, in the general Map of Ruffia, are copied from thence,
the reader will find them laid down upon the reduced map prefixed to
this work. The anonymous author of the account of the Ruffian Dif-
eoveries; o f whofe work I have given a tranflation in Part I- feems to
have followed, in moft particulars, Otcheredin’s chart- and journal for
the longitude, latitude, fize, and'pofition o f the New Difcovered Iflands.
For this reafon, I flmuld have had his chart engraved if the Fox Iflands
upon the general map had not been taken from thence : there teemed
no occaflon therefore for inereafing the expence of this work,, already
too great from -the number o f charts, by the .addition, o f another not
abfoliitely necefiarycharts