APPENDIX T. 



Though thefe circranftances fl:iould not be conficlered 

 as affording decifive proofs, that Beering reached Ame- 

 rica ; yet they will furely be admitted as ftrong preiump- 

 tions, that he very nearly approached that continent t. 



']- Tlie reader will recolledt in this place, that the natives of the 

 contiguous iflands touched at by Beering and TfchirikofF " prefented to 

 «' the Ruffians the calumet, or pipe of peace, which is a fymbol of 

 " friendfliip univerfal among the people of North America, and an 

 " ufage of arbitrary inftitution peculiar to them." See Robertlbn's HilL 

 Am. vol.1, p. 276. S R. G. III. p. 214. 



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