A P P E N D 1 X I. 31; 



pafTed round the North Eaftern extremity of Afia. But 

 if we confult the Ruffian accounts, wefhall find, that fre- 

 quent expeditions have been unqueftionably made fron^ 

 the Lena to the Kovyma ; but that the voyage from the 

 Kovyma round Tfchukotfkoi Nofs, into the Eaftern ocean, 

 has been performed but once. According to Mr. Muller, 

 this formidable cape was doubled in the year 1648. 

 The material incidents of this remarkable voyage are as 

 follow. 



" In 1 648 feven kotches or vefTels failed from the Keff-s"^ 

 mouth of the river Kovyma t, in order to penetrate intoTfchukw&oi- 



Nofs. 



the Eaftern Ocean. Of thefe, four were never more 

 heard of : the remaining three were commanded by 

 Simon Deftineff, Gerafim Ankudinoff^, two chiefs of the 

 Coflacs, and Fedot Alexeeff", the head of the Promyfli- 

 lenics. DeftinefF and AnkudinofF quarrelled before their 



to the fadt mentioned by Captain Wood and Mr. Fngel, (namely, that 

 two Dutch veflels have palled 300 leagues to the Ealt of Nova Zemla) 

 that we have no reafon to credit mere aflertions without proof: we 

 may therefore advance as a fadt, that hitherto we have no authentic ac- 

 count, that any veflcl has ever palled the cape to the Eaft of Nova 

 Zemla, which lies North of the river Piafida. See Relation of Wood's 

 Voyage, &c. in the Account of feveral late Voyages and Difcaveries to 

 the South and North, &c. London, 1694, p. 148. See alfo Engel, 

 Mem. et Obf. Geog. p. 231 to 234. 



I fhould not have fwelled my book with this extra(f>, if the Eng- 

 lifh tranflation of Mr. Muller's work was not extremely erroneous in fome 

 material paffages. S. R. G. III. p. 8 — 20. 



'Y Mr. Muller calls it Kolyma. 



S s departure : 



