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»7r8- in for the fliore. The country here is exceedingly hilly 

 eptem er. ^^^ naked. In feveral places on the low ground, next the 

 fea, were the dwellings of the natives ; and near all of them 

 were eredted llages of bones, fuch as before defcribed. 

 Thefe may be feen at a great diftance, on account of their 

 whitenefs. 



At noon the latitude was 64° 38', and the longitude 

 188' 15'; the Southernmoft point of the main in fight bore 

 South, 48° Weft ; and the neareft fliore about three or four 

 leagues diftant. By this time, the wind had veered again 

 to the North, and blew a gentle breeze. The weather was 

 clear, and the air cold. I did not follow the direcftion of 

 the coaft, as 1 found that it took a Wefterly direftion toward 

 ' the Gulf of Anadir, into which I had no inducement to go, 

 but fteered to the Southward, in order to get a fight of the 

 Ifland of St. Laurence, difcovered by Beering; which ac- 

 cordingly fliewed itfelf, and, at eight o'clock in the even- 

 ing, it bore South, 20'Eaft; by eftimation, eleven leagues 

 diftant. At the fame time, the Southernmoft point of the 

 main land bore South, 83° Weft, diftant twelve leagues. I 

 take this to be the point which Beering calls the Eaft Point 

 of Suchotflci, or Cape T'fchukotjkoi ; a name which he gave it, 

 and with propriety, becaufe it was from this part of the 

 coaft that the natives came off to him, who called them- 

 fclves of the nation of the Tfchutflii. I make its latitude 

 to be 64° 13', and its longitude i86° 36'. 



In juftice to the memory of Beering, I muft fay, that he 

 has delineated the coaft very well, and fixed the latitude and 

 longitude of the points better than could be expected from 

 the methods he had to go by. This judgment is not formed 

 from Mr. Mullet's account of the voyage, or the chart pre- 

 fixed to his book ; but from Dr. Campbell's account of it in 



his 



