and 6o degrees o f latitude, that Continent advances no
where nearer to Afia than the * coafts touched at by
Beering and TfchirikofF, or about 236 degrees of longitude.
As to the New Difcovered Iflands, nó credit muft be
given to a chart publifhed in the Geographical Calendar
o f St. Peterfburg for 1774; in which they are inaccurately
laid down. Nor is the antient chart of the New
Difcoveries, publifhed by the Imperial Academy, and
which feems to have been drawn up from mere reports,
more deferving of attention t.
^ofitiqnydf the The late navigators give a far different defeription of
«red iflands. ^ Northern Archipelago. From their accounts wè
learn, that Beering’s Ifland is {iterated dueEaft from Karnt-
chatkoi Nofs, in the 18 5th degree of longitude. Near it is
Copper Ifland ; and, at fome diftance from them, Eaft-
fouth-eaft, there are three fmall iflands, named by their
inhabitants,, Attak, Semitfhi, and Shemiya: thefe are
properly the Aleutian fries; they ftretch from Weft-
rtorth-weft towards Eaft-fouth-eaft, in the fame direction
as Beering’s and Copper Iflands, in the longitude of
195, and latitude 54.
* Appendix I. N° IL'
p Appendix L. N° 1W.
To
To the North-eaft of thefe, at the diftance of 600 or
800 verfts, lies another group o f fix or more iflands,
known by the name of the AndreanofHkie Oftrova.
South-eaft, or Eaft-fouth, of thefe, at the diftance of
about 1 5 degrees, and North by Eaft of the Aleutian, begins
the chain of Ly tfie Oftrova, or Fox Iflands: this chain
of rocks andifles ftretches Eaft-north-eaft between 56 and
61 degrees of North latitude, from a n degrees of longitude
moft probably to the Continent of America; and in a
line of direction, which crofies with that in which the
Aleutian ifles lie. The largeft and moft remarkable of
thefe iflands are Umnak, Aghunalaflika, or, as it is commonly
fhortened, Unalafhka, Kadyak, and Alagfhak.
Of thefe and the Aleutian Ifles, the diftance and pofi-
tion are tolerably well ascertained by fhips reckonings,
and latitudes taken by pilots. But the fituation of the
Andreanoffiky Ifles* is ftill fomewhat doubtful, though
probably their direction is Eaft and Weft ; and fome of
them may unite with that part o f the Fox Iflands which
are moft contiguous to the oppofite Continent.
The main land of America has not been touched at by
any of the veifels in the late expeditions; though poflibly
* Thefe are the fame iflands which are called, by Mr. Stsehlin, Ana-
dirfky Iflands, from their fuppofed vicinity to the river Anadyr. See
Appendix I. N° V.