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•greater breadth than an hundred or tu'o hundred yards,' 

 The vefTcl being much damaged, on the lil of Septem- 

 ber he ran up the mouth of the Olenek, which, accord- 

 ing to his eftimation, Ucs in 72" 30', near wliich place 

 •he pafTed the winter ^. 



He got out of the Olenek the beginning of Auguft in 

 the following year; and arrived on the third at the mouth 

 of the Anabara, which he found to lie in lat. 73" 1', 

 There he continued until the loth, while fome of the 

 crew went up the country in fearch of fome mines. On 

 the loth he proceeded on his voyage : before he reached 

 the mouth of the Chatanga he was fo entirely furrounded 

 and hemmed in with ice, that it was not without great 

 difficulty and danger he was able to get loofe. He then 

 obferved a large field of ice ftretching into the fea, on 

 which account he was obliged to continue near the lliore, 

 and to run up the Chatanga. The mouth of this river 

 was in lat 74° 9'. From thence he bent his courfe moftly 

 Northward along the fliore, until he reached the moutli 

 of the Taimura on the i8th. He then proceeded fur- 

 ther, and followed the coall: towards the Piafida. Near 

 the fiiore w'ere feveral fmall i/lands, between which and 

 the land the ice was immovably fixed. He then diretfted 

 his couife toward the fea, in order to pals round the 



* Gnielin Rcile, II. 425 to 427. 



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