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• the time is not far diflant when fome of the Ruffian ad- 

 venturers will fall in with that coaft*. More to the 

 North perhaps, at leaft as high as 70 degrees latitude, 

 the Continent of America may ttretch out nearer to the 

 coaft of the Tfchutfl-Li ; and form a large promontory, 

 accompanied with iflands, which have no connecflion 

 with any of the preceding ones. That fuch a promon- 

 tory really exifcs, and advances to within a very fmall 

 diftance from Tfchukotflcoi Nofs, can hardly be doubted ; 

 at leaft it feems to be confirmed by all the lateft accounts 

 which have been procured from thofe parts -f. That 

 prolongation, therefore, of America, which by Delifle is 

 made to extend Weftward, and is laid down juft oppofite 

 to Kamtchatka, between 50 and 60 degrees latitude, muft 

 he entirely removed ; for many of the voyages related 

 in this collection lay through that part of the ocean, 

 where this imaginary Continent was marked down. 



It is even more than probable, that the Aleutian, and 

 fome of the Fox Iflands, now well known, are the very 

 fame which Beering fell-in with upon his return ; though, 

 from the unileadinefs of his courfe, their true pofition 

 could not be exa£lly laid down in the chait of that ex- 

 pedition |. 



As 



* Appendix I, N° VI. 



f Appendix I. N^ VII. 



:|: This error is however fo fniallj and particularly with refpedt to the 

 more Eaftern coafts and iflands, as laid down in Bcering's chart, fuch as 

 Cape Hermogenes, Toomauoi, Shumaghin's Ifland, and mountain of Sr. 



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