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charts of different navigators. The iflands near the
coaft -of the Tfchutiki are copied from Synd’s chart.
The Fox Iflands are laid down from the chart of Otche-
redin. The reader will perceive, that the pofition of
the Fox Iflands, upon this general map of Ruflia, is
materially different from that afligned to them in the
chart of Krenitzin’s and LevafhefFs voyage. In the
former they are reprefented as ftretching between
56° 61' North latitude, and 210° and 230° longitude
from the ifle of Fero : in the latter they are fituated
between 5 1° 40' and 55° 20' latitude, and 199° 30' and
207° 30' longitude; According to the moft recent accounts
received from Petersburg, the pofition given to
them upon this general map is confiderably too much
to the North and Eaft; confequently that afligned to
them upon Krenitzin’s chart is probably the moft to be
depended upon.
7. Carte des dècouvertes Ruffes dans la mer oriëntale
et en Amerique, pour fervir a 1’Eflai fur le commerce
* The twelfth chapter o f this Effay relates to the difcoveries and
commerce of the Ruffians in the Eaftern Ocean. The account o f the
Ruffian difcoveries is a tranflation o f Mr. Staehlin’s Defcription o f the
New Northern Archipelago. In addition, he has fubjoined an account
of Kamtchatka, and a ffiort lketch of the Ruffian commerce to the New
Difcovered Iflands, and to America. I f we may believe the author o f
this Effay, the Ruffians have not only difcovered America, but they alfo
"every year form occalional fettlements upon that continent, flmilar to
thofe o f the Europeans in Newfoundland. His words are ; “ II eft done
certain,
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merce de Ruflie, 1778, Amfterdam., It is natural to
expedt, that a chart fo recently publifhed fhould be fu-
perior to all the preceding ones ; whereas, on the contrary,
it is by far the moft incorrect reprefentation of
the New Difcovered Iflands which has yet appearedcertain„
que les Ruffes ont-découvert le continent de l’Amérique ; mais
on peut affurer qu’ils n’y ont encore aucun port, aucun comptoir.
R en eft des établiffements de cette nation dans la grande terre,,comme
de ceux des nations Européennes dans l’ifle de Terre Neve. Ses vaif-
feaux ou frégates arrivent’ en Amérique ; leurs equipages et les Cofaques
ohaffeurs s’établiffent. fur la côte j les- uns fe retranchent, et les autres
y font la chaffe et la pêche du chien marin-et du narval. Ils reviennent
enfuite au Kamtchatka, après, avoir été relevés par d’autres frégates
fur les mêmes parages, ou à des diftances plus ou moins éloignés,
&c. &c.” 'SeeEffai furie commerce dé la Ruffie,_p. 292'— 293. Thus the
publick is impofed-upon by fiétitious and exaggerated accounts.
N° V.