APPENDIX!, 267 



N° II. 



Concerning the longitude o/Kamtchatka, and of the EaJIern 

 extremity of Afia, as laid down by the Ruffian Geo- 

 graphers. 



Longitude 



of the extreme 



'T^ H E important queftion concerning the longitude 



-*- of the extreme parts of Afia has been fo differ- "'" °' """' 

 ently ftated by the moft celebrated geographers, that it 

 may not be amifs to refer the curious reader to the 

 principal treatifes upon that fubjecSt. The proofs by 

 which Mr. Miiller and the Ruffian geographers place the by Mr. MuI- 



ler and the 



longitude of the Eaftern extremity of Afia beyond 200 ^"'\'''"°'=°- 



O ' •* grapliers ; 



degrees from the firfl meridian of Fero, or 180° 6' 15" 

 from Paris, are drawn from the obfervations of the fa- 

 tellites of Jupiter, made by KraffilnikofF at Kamtchatka, 

 and in different parts of Siberia, and from the expedi- 

 tions of the Ruffians by land and fea towards Tfchukot- 

 fkoi Nofs. 



Mr. Eng^l calls in qneftion the exadnefs • of thefe by Mr. Engci. 

 ob.'ervations, and takes olT twenty-nine degrees from the 



M 2 longitude 



