60 ESTABLISHMENTS AT SPITZBERGEN. 



ments at Spitzbergen still upheld by the mer- 

 chants of Archangel ; who, during the last cen- 

 tury, and under the auspices of the Russian 

 government, formed a settlement in Bell Sound, 

 upon this coast,* and who still send annually f 

 a small vessel to bring home the peltry and 

 sea-horse teeth that have been collected by 

 their servants during the year. 



* Coxe's Russian Discoveries. j- 1818. 



