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with ice, that it was impofTible to force a paflage : after 

 fleering as high as lat. 77° 25', he found fuch a plain 

 of fixed ice before him, that he had no profpect of 

 getting any farther. Accordingly he returned to the 

 Oleiiek. 



Another attempt was made to pafs from the Lena to 

 the Yenilei in 1739, by Chariton LaptiefF, with equal 

 bad fuccefs ; and he relates, that between the rivers 

 Piafida and Taimura, a promontory ftretches into the 

 fea which he could not double, the fea being entirely 

 frozen up before he could pafs round *.. 



From all thefe circumftances we muft collect, that the die'^Ri^err"" 

 whole fpace between Archangel and the Lena has never Phfidrneve"- 



yet doubled. 



yet been navigated ;, for in going Eaft from the Yenifei 

 the Ruffians could get no farther than the mouth of the 

 Pialida ; and, in coming Weft from the Lena, they were 

 flopped, according to Gmelin, North of the Piafida ; 

 and, according to MuUer, Eaft of the Taimura. 



The Ruffians, who fail almofl annually from Arch- 

 angel, and other towns, to Nova Zemla, for the pur- 

 pofe of catching fea-horfes, feals, and white bears, make 



* Gmelin Reife, p. 440. Mr. Muller fays only, that Laptleff met 

 with the fame obftacles which forced Prontfhiftfhcff to return. S. R. G. 

 III. p. 150. 



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