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A VOYAGE TO 



>778- It is a peninfula of confiderable height, joined to the conti- 



September. , _ 



> , — ; nent by a very low, and, to appearance, narrow neck or 



land. It fhews a fteep rocky cHfFnext the fea ; and ofF the 

 very point are fome rocks like fpires. It is fituated in the 

 latitude of 66" 6', and in the longitude of 190° 22' ; and is dif- 

 tant, from Cape Prince of Wales, on the American coafl, 

 thirteen leagues, in the direction of North, 53° Weft. The 

 land about this promontory is compofed of hills and 

 vallies. The former terminate at the fca in fteep rocky 

 points, and the latter in low fhores. The hills feemed to be 

 naked rocks ; but the vallies had a greenifli hue, but def- 

 titute of tree or flirub. 



After paffing the Cape, I fleered South Weft half Weft, for 

 the Northern point of St. Lawrence Bay, in which we had 

 anchored on the loth of laft month. We reached it by eight 

 Thurfday3. o'clock ncxc moming, and faw fome of the inhabitants at 

 the place where I had feen them before, as well as feveral 

 others on the oppofite fide of the bay. None of them, how- 

 ever, attempted to come olF to us ; which feemed a little 

 extraordinary, as the weather was favourable enough ; and 

 thofe whom we had lately vifited had no rcafon, that I 

 know of, to diflike our company. Thefe people muft be 

 the Tfchutfki ; a nation that, at the time Mr. M'uller wrote, 

 the Ruflians had not been able to conquer. And, from 

 the whole of their condu6t with us, it appears that they 

 have not, as yet, brought them under fubjec^ion; though it 

 is obvious that they muft have a trade with the Ruflians, 

 either directly, or by means of fome neighbouring nation ; 

 as wc cannot otherwifc account for their being in pofTef- 

 fion of the fpontoons, in particular, of which we took 

 notice. s 



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