2. There is not so exact an examination made in receiving it from the Chinese at Canton, as from the Bucharians at Kiachta. For the merchants, who purchase this drug at Canton, are obliged to accept it in the gross, without separating the bad roots, and cutting away the decayed parts, as is done at Kiachta.
3. It is also probable, that the long transport of this drug by sea is detrimental to it, from the humidity which it must necessarily contract during so long a voyage.
[Sidenote: Table of Longitude and Latitude.] For the convenience of the Reader, the following Table exhibits in one point of view the longitude and latitude of the principal places mentioned in this performance. Their longitudes are estimated from the first meridian of the Isle of Fero, and from that of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. The longitude of Greenwich from Fero is computed at 17° 34´ 45´´. The longitude of the places marked * has been taken from astronomical observations.
Latitude. Longitude. | | Fero. | Greenwich. | D. M. S. | D. M. S. | D. M. * Petersburg | 59 56 23 | 48 0 0 | 30 25[190] * Moscow | 55 45 45 | 55 6 30 | 37 31 * Archangel | 64 33 24 | 56 15 0 | 38 40 * Tobolsk | 58 12 22 | 85 40 0 | 68 26 * Tomsk | 56 30 0 | 102 50 0 | 85 15 * Irkutsk | 52 18 15 | 122 13 0 | 104 38 * Selenginsk | 51 6 0 | 124 18 30 | 106 44 Kiachta | 35 0 0 | 124 18 0 | 106 43 * Yakutsk | 62 1 50 | 147 0 0 | 129 25 * Ochotsk | 59 22 0 | 160 7 0 | 142 32 * Bolcheresk | 52 55 0 | 174 13 0 | 156 38 * Port of St. Peter and Paul | 53 1 0 | 176 10 0 | 158 36 Eastern Extremity of Siberia | 66 0 0 | 200 0 0 | 182 25 Unalashka (A) | 58 0 0 | 223 0 0 | 205 25 Unalashka (B) | 53 30 0 | 205 30 0 | 187 55
Key: (A) According to the general map of Russia (B) According to the chart of Krenitzin & Levasheff
[Footnote 190: I have omitted the seconds in the longitude from Greenwich.]
_Aguladock_, a leader of the Unalashkans, taken prisoner by Solovioff, 139.
_Agulok_, a dwelling-place on Unalashka, 137.
_Aischin-Giord_, chief of the Manshurs at the beginning of the 17th century, 198.
_Aktunak_, an island to the East of Kadyak, 108.
_Alaksu_, or _Alachshak_, one of the most remote Eastern islands, 65. Customs of the inhabitants, 68. Animals found on that island, _ib._ Conjectured to be not far from the continent of America, 69.