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the Kamtchatka river about an hundred and eighty verft^ 

 below Upper Kamtchatkoi Oftrog. At the time of the 

 firft expedition to Kamtchatka, in 1697, the remains of 

 two villages flill fubfirted, which had probably been in- 

 habited by Fedotoff rsnd his companions : and no one 

 knew which way they came into the peninfula, until it 

 was difcovered from the archives of Yakutfk in 1636." 



* No other navigator, fubfequent to Deflineff, has ever 

 pretended to have pafled the North Eaftern extremity of 



Afia, 



* Mr. Engel indeed pretends that lieutenant LaptiefF, 101739, dou- 

 bled Tfchukotlkoi-Nofs, becaufe Gmelin fays, that " he paffed from the 

 " Kovyma to Anadirsk partly by water and. partly by land." For Mr. 

 Engel afferts the impoffibility of getting from the Kovyma to Anadirsk, 

 partly by land and partly by water, -without going from the Kovyma to 

 the mouth of the Anadyr by ka.; and from thence to Anadirsk by land. 

 ButMr.Muller(whohas given a more particular account of theconclufion 

 of this expedition) informs us, that LaptiefF and his crew, after having 

 wintered near the Indigirka, paffed from its mouth in fmall boats to the 

 Kovyma ; and as it was dangerous, on account of the Tfchutski, to fol- 

 low the coafl any farther, either by land or water, he went through the 

 Interior part of the country to Anadirsk, and from thence to the mouth 

 of '-he Anadyr. Gmelin Reife, vol.. II. p. 4^0. S. R. G. III. p. 157. 



Mention is alfo made by Gmelin of a man who paffed in a fmaLl 

 boat from the Kovyma round Tlchukotskoi-Nofs into the fea of Kamt- 

 chatka : and Mr. Engel has not omitted to bring this pallage in fupport 

 of his fyftem, with this difference, that he refers to the authority of 

 Muller, inftead of Gmelin, for the truth of the fadt. JBut as we have 

 no account of this expedition, and as the manner in which it is mentioned 

 by Gmelin implies that he had it merely from tradition, we cannot lay any 



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