27S APPENDIX r. 



Since then the longitude between Fero and PeterP 

 burgh is acknowledged to be 48° — that between Peterf- 

 burgh and Yakutfk 99° 21' — and as the diiT:ance in lon- 

 gitude between Yakutfk: and Bolcherefk cannot be ma- 

 terially lefs than 27" 3'. it follows that the longitude of 

 Bolcherefk from Fero cannot be much lefs than 174° 24'.. 

 Where then fliall we find place for fo great an error as 

 27 degrees, which, according to Mr. Engel, or even of 

 11°. which, according to Alonf. Vaugondy, is imputed 

 to the Ruffian geographers, in fixing the longitude of 

 Kamtchatka ? 



From the ifle of Fero- 



Longitude of Yakutfk 147 o o 



of Ochotfk 160 7 a 



of Bolcherelk 1 7 4 1 3 o 



of the Port of St. Peter and Paul 176 10 o 



Lnneituiie of As uo aftrouomical obfervations have been made fur- 



tl.e extreme 



parts of Afu j-j^ej- to the Eaft than the Port of St. Peter and Paul, it is 



cletermined by ' 



impoffible to fix, with any degree of certainty, the lon- 

 gitude of the North-Eaftern promontory of Afia. It ap- 

 pears however from Beering^s and Synd's coafting voyages 

 towards Tfchukotfkoi Nofs, and from other expeditions 

 to the parts by land and fea, that the coaft of Afia in 

 lat. 64, flretches at leaft 23° 2 30. from the Port, or 

 to about 200° longitude from the lile of Fero. 



N° III. 



tlie Ruflians. 



