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Yakutsk, feems only as it were accidentally to mention 

 his adventures by fea : he takes no notice of any occur- 

 rence 



covery of the country on the mouth of the Anadyr, had aflcrted, in 

 confequence of this claim, that they had arrived there by fea, after 

 having doubled Tfchukotfkoi Nofs. Defhneff, in anfwer, fent feveral 

 memorials, petitions, and complaints, againft Stadukin and Soliverftoff, 

 to the commander of Yakutlk, in which he fets forth, that he had 

 the fole right to that difcovery, and refutes the arguments advanced by 

 the others. From thefe memorials Mr. Muller has extradled his account 

 of Deflineff's voyage. When I was at Peterlburg I had an opportunity 

 of feeing thefc papers : and as they are written in the lluflian language, 

 I prevailed upon my ingenious friend Mr. Pallas to infped: the part 

 which relates to Delhneff. Accordingly Mr. Pallas, with his ufual readi- 

 nefs to oblige, not only compared the memorials with Mr. MuUcr's ac- 

 count, but even took the trouble to make fome extracts in the mofl: 

 material paflages : thefc extraifts are l.ere fubjoined ; becaufe they will not 

 only ferve to confirm the cxa<ftncfs of Mr. Muller; but alfo becaufe they 

 tend to throw fome light on feveral obicure paffages. In one of Defli- 

 neff's memorials he fays, " To go trom the river Kovyma to the Anadyr, 

 " a great promontory mufl: be doubled, which flretches very far into 

 " the fea : it is not that promontory which lies next to the river 

 *' Tfchukotskia. Stadukin never arrived at this great piomontory : 

 " near it are two iflands, whole inhabitants make holes in their under- 

 " lips, and infert therein pieces of the fea-horfe tufli, worked into the 

 " form of teeth. This promontory flretches between North and North 

 " Eaft : It is known on the Rufllan fide by the little river Stanovie, 

 " which flows into the fea, near the fpot where the Tfchutiki have eredt- 

 " cd a heap of whale-bones like a tower. The coaft from the promon- 

 " tory turns round towards the Anadyr, and it is poflible to fail with a 

 " good wind from the point to that river in three days and nights, and 

 " no more : and it will take up no more time to go by land to the fame 

 " river, becaufe it difcharges itfelf into a bay." In another memorial 

 Deflineft' lays, " that he was ordered to go by fea from the Indigirka 



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