N° v.
Pofition of the AndreanofFsky Ifles afcertained— Number
of the Aleiitian Ifles.
WH E N the anonymous author publilhed his account
of the Ruffian Difcoveri.es in 1766, the
pofition of the AndreanofFsky Ifles was not afcertained.
It was generally fuppofed, that they formed part of that
dufter of iflands, which Synd * fell in with in his voyage
towards Tfchukotfkoi Nofs ; and BufFon t reprefents
them to be the fame with thofe laid down in Stæhlin’s
chart, under the name of Anadirsky Ifles. The anonymous
author in the, paffage here referred to, ffippofes
them to be N. E. of the Aleiitian Ifles ; S at the diftance
« of 6 0 0 or 800 verfts ; that their direction is probably
“ Eaft and Weft, and that fome of them may unite
with that part of the Fox Iflands which are moft
rf contiguous to the oppofite continent.” This conjecture
was advanced upon a fuppofition that the
Andreanoffsky Ifles lay near the coaft of the Tfchutski;
* See N° IX. of this Appendix.
W Ifles Anadyr ou Andrien. Supp. vol. V. p. 591.
and
and that forae of the Fox Iflands were fituated in latitude
61, as they are laid down upon the general map
o f Ruffia. But according to fubfequent information,
the Andreanoffsky Ifles lie between the Aleutian and the roMon on»6«
' Andreanoffsky
Fox Iflands, and complete the connection betweenIfles-
Kamtchatka and America*. Their chain is fuppofed to
begin in about latitude 53, near the moft Eafterly of the
Aleutian Ifles, and to extend in a fcattered feries towards
the Fox Iflands. The moft North Eafterly of thefe
iflands are faid to be fb near the moft Southerly of the
Fox Iflands, that they feem occafionally to have been
taken for them. An inftance of this occurs in p. 61
and 62 of this work; where Atchu and Amlach are
reckoned among the Fox Iflands. It is however more
probable, that they are part of the group called by the
Aleiitian chief Negho t, and known to the Ruffians
under the name of Andreanoffsky Iflands, becaufe they
were fuppofed to have been firft difeovered by Andrean
Tolftyk, whofe voyage is related in the feventh chapter
o f the Firft Part.
I take this opportunity of adding, that the anonymous Number of <!w.
Aleutian Ifles-.
author, in deferibing the Aleutian Ifles, both in the
firft and laft chapter of the account of the Ruffian
* P. 58. Some o f the remoter iflands are faid to be E. S. E. of the
Aleiitian Ifles ; thefe mu ft be. either part o f the Andreanoffsky Ifles, or
the moft Southerly o f the Fox Iflands!
See N° VIII, o f this Appendix.
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