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Obv. In 173S, the lieutenants Malgyin and Sknrakoff 

 doubled that promontory with great difficulty, and en- 

 tered the bay of Oby. During thele expeditions the na- 

 vigators met with great dangers and impediments from 

 the ice. Several unfuccefsful attempts were made to pafs 

 from the bay of Oby to the Yenifei, which was at laft 

 efFedted, in 1738, by two veffels commanded by lieute- 

 A«lm"/ro"^ nants OfFzin and Koils.eleff. The fame year the pilot 

 Ycmit'i'Tod'e Feodor Menin failed from the Yenifei rowards the Lena: 

 he fteered North as high as lat. 73°. 15'. and when he 

 came to the mouth of the Piafida he was flopped by the 

 ice ; and finding it impollible to force a palTage, he re- 

 turned to the Yenifei •;=-.. 



^'muf-'iiilh- J^^^y> i735j lieutenant Pr-ontOiiflfliefF failed from 

 Lena'tmvar'ds Yakutsk up thc Lcoa to its mouth, in order to pafs 

 from thence by fea to the Yenifei. The Weftern mouths 

 of the Lena were fo choaked up with ice, that he was 

 obliged to pafs through the moil Eailerly one ; and was 

 prevented by contrary winds from getting out until the 

 1 3th of Auguft. Having fteered North Weft along- the 

 iilands which lie fcattered before the moatbs of the Lenn, 

 he found bimfelf in lat. 70° 4'. Ht faw much ice to 

 the North and North Eaft ; and- obferved. ice-mountains 

 from twenty-four to fixty feet in height. He fteered be- 

 twixt the ice, which in no place left- a free channel o-f 



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