THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 471 



CapeSerdze Kamen bore North, 52" Weft, thirteen leagues dif- „ '773- 



'^ JO Sepiember. 



rant; the Southernmoft point of land in fi£;ht South, 41° 

 Eaft ; the neareft part of the coaft two leagues diftant ; and 

 our depth of water twenty-two fathoms. 



We had now fair weather and funfliine ; and as wc ranged 

 along the coaft, at the diftance of four miles, we faw fevc- 

 ral of the inhabitants, and fome of their habitations, which 

 looked like little hillocks of earth. In the evening we 

 paffed the Eajlern Cape^ or the point above mentioned; from 

 ■which the coaft changes its diredion, and trends South 

 Weft. It is the fame point of land which we had pafted on 

 the nth of Auguft. They who believed implicitly in Mr. 

 Sra^hlin's map, then thought it the Eaft point of Ills iftand 

 Alafchka ; but we had, by this time, fatisficd ourfclves, that 

 if is no other than the Eaftern promontory of Afia ; and pro- 

 bably the proper Tfchiikotjlioi No/s, though the promontory, to 

 ■which Beering gave that name, is farther to the Soutli 

 Weft. 



Though Mr. Mullcr, in his map of the RufTian Difcoverics, 

 places the Tfchukotfkoi Nofs nearly in 75° of latitude, and 

 extends it fomewhat to the Eaftward of this Cape, it appears 

 to me, that he had no good authority for fo doing. Indeed 

 his own accounts, or rather DcflinefF's *, of the diftance be- 

 tween the Nofs, and the river Anadir, cannot be reconciled 

 ■with this very Northerly pofition. But as I hope to vifit 

 thefe parts again, I fhall leave the difcuftlon of this point 

 till then. In the mean time, I muft conclude, as Beering 

 did before me, that this is the moft Eaftern point of Afia. 



* Avec le vent le plus favorable, on peut aller par mer de cette pointe (des 

 Tfcluiktfchis), jufqu'a I'Anadir en trois fois 24 heures ; & par terre le chemin ne 

 peut guere etre plus long. MuUer, p. 13. 



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