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Though Mr. Muller, in his map of the Russian 

 Discoveries, places the Tschukotskoi Noss nearly in 

 75 of latitude, and extends it somewhat to the 

 eastward of this cape, it appears to me, that he had 

 no good authority for so doing. Indeed his own ac- 

 counts, or rather Deshneff's *, of the distance be- 

 tween the Noss and the river Anadir cannot be 

 reconciled with this very northerly position. But as 

 I hope to visit these parts again, I shall leave the dis- 

 cussion of this point till then. In the mean time, I 

 must conclude, as Beering did before me, that this is 

 the most eastern point of Asia. It is a peninsula of 

 considerable height, joined to thejContinent by a very 

 low, and, to appearance, narrow neck of land. It 

 shows a steep rocky cliff next the sea ; and off the 

 very point are some rocks like spires. It is situated 

 in the latitude of 66 6', and in the longitude of 

 1 90 Q&' ; and is distant from Cape Prince of Wales, 

 on the American coast, thirteen leagues, in the direc- 

 tion of north, 53 west. The land about this pro- 

 montory is composed of hills and valleys. The for- 

 mer terminate at the sea in steep rocky points, and 

 the latter in low shores. The hills seemed to be 

 naked rocks ; but the valleys had a greenish hue, but 

 destitute of tree or shrub. 



After passing the cape, I steered south-west half 

 west, for the northern point of St. Lawrence Bay, in 

 which we had anchored on the 10th of last month. 

 We reached it by eight o'clock next morning, and 

 saw some of the inhabitants at the place where I had 

 seen them before, as well as several others on the op- 

 posite side of the bay. None of them, however, at- 

 tempted to come off to us ; which seemed a little 

 extraordinary, as the weather was favourable enough ; 

 and those whom we had lately visited had no reason 

 that I know of to dislike our company. These people 



* Avec le vent le plus favorable, on peut allerpar mer de cette 

 pointe (des Tschuktschis) jusqu'a 1' Anadir en trois fois 24 heures ; 

 & par terre le chemin ne peut guere etre plus long. Mullcr ? p, 13. 



