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angel, and the more eastern ports, into the Pacific, 

 it cannot fail to strike the reader that every where 

 along this low coast and shallow sea the vessels 

 had to struggle continually with ice, and that in 

 their endeavours to double the projecting points 

 of land, they constantly kept close to the shore, 

 instead of standing out into deep water, where, 

 in all probability, they would have met with less 



ice.* 



* Coxc's Account of the Russian Discoveries. 



