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APPENDIX I. 



pajTctl at diffeix'nt times, they conclude from thence, 

 that the whole when taken coileclively is prav5licable. 



Thefe three parts are, i. from Archangel to the Lena; 

 2. from the Lena to Kamtchatka ; 3. from Kamtchatka 

 to Japan. With refpecSt to the latter, the connec- 

 tion between the feas of Kamtchatka and Japan firft ap- 

 peared from fome Japanefe veflcls, w^iich were wrecked 

 upon tlie coaft of Kamtchatka in the beginning of this 

 century ; and this communication has been unqueftion- 

 ably proved from feveral voyages made by the Ruffians 

 from Kamtchatka to Japan*. 



No one ever afferted that the firft part from ArchangeL 

 to the Lena was ever performed in one voyage ; but fe- 

 veral perfons having advanced that this navigation has 

 been made by the Ruffians at different times, it becomes 

 neceilary to examine the accounts of the Ruffian voyages 

 in thofe fcas. 



hi 1734 lieutenant MoroviefF failed from Archangel vov.ges fro™ 



11-1 J r Aicliangel to 



toward tne river Oby ; and got no farther the firft yearth= Yeniiu. 

 than the mouth of the Petchora. The next fummer he 

 palled through the flraits ef Weygatz into the fea of 

 Kara ; and coafted along the Eaflern fide of that fea, as 

 high as latitude 72" 30', but did not double the pro- 

 montory which feparates the fea of Kara from the Bay of 



* S,R. G. III. p. 78, and p. 166, &c. 



R r Oby. 



