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APPENDIX I. 



N* XL 



Jt tempts of the Ruffians to difcover a North Eafl pdjage-—' 

 ' Voyages from Archangel towards the Lena — From the 

 Lena towards Karatchatka — ExtraBl from Muller's ac- 

 count o/Defchneff's voyage round Tschukotskoi Nofs — 

 Narrative of a voyage made by Shalauroff /ro?« the Lena 

 to Shelatskoi Nofs. 



*" I ^ n E only communication hitherto known between 

 the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, or between Europe 

 and the Eaft Indies, is made either by failing round the 

 Cape of Good Hope, or by doubling Cape Horn. But as 

 both thefe navigations are very long and dangerous, the 

 great objeft of feveral late European voyages has been 

 turned towards the difcovery of a North Eaft or a North 

 Weft paftage. As this work is entirely confined to the 

 Ruffian navigations, any difquifition concerning the 

 North Weft paiTage is totally foreign to the purpofe ; and 

 for the fame reafon in what relates to the North Eaft, thefe 

 refearches extend only to the attempts of the Ruffians for 

 the difcovery of that paftage. 



The advocates for the North Eaft paftage have divided 

 that navigation into three principal parts ; and by en- 

 deavouring to fliew that thefe three parts have been 



pafled 



