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Afia, notwithflanding all the attempts which have been 

 made to accomplifli this paffage, as well from * Kamt- 

 chatka as from the Frozen Ocean. 



The following narrative of a late voyage performed 

 by one Shalauroff, from the Lena towards Tfchukotfkoi- 

 Nofs, will fhew the great impediments which obftruit a 

 coalUng navigation in the Frozen Sea, even at the moft 

 favourable feafon of the year. 



Shalauroff. having conftruifled a fliitik at his own XTs^°i 



' '-' ShalauroiT. 



expence, went down the Lena in 1761. He was ac- 

 companied by an exiled midlliipman, whom he had 

 found at Yakutlk, and to whom we are indebted for 



llrefs upon fuch vague and uncertain reports. The paffage is as follows : 

 " Es find fo gar Spuren vorhanden, dafs ein Kerl mit einem Schifflein, 

 *' das nichtviel groeffer als ein Schifferkahn gevefen, von Kolyma bis 

 *' Tfchukotfkoi-Nofs vorbey, und bis nach Kamtfchatka gekommen fey." 

 Gmelin Reife, II. p. 437. Mem. et Obf. Geog. Sec. p. 10. 



* Beering, in his voyage from Kamtchatka, in 1628, towards Tfchu- 

 kolskoi-Nofs, failed along the coafl of the Tfchutski as high as lat. 

 67° 18'. and obferving the coaft take a Wefterly dircftion, he too haltily 

 concluded, that he had paffed the North Eaftern extremity. Apprchen- 

 five, if he had attempted to proceed, of being locked in by the ice, he re- 

 turned to Kamtchatka. If he had followed the fhore, he would have 

 found, that what he took for the Northern ocean was nothing more 

 than a deep bay : and that the coall of the Tfchutski, which he coniidered 

 as turning uniformly to the Weft, took again a Northerly diredion. 

 S. R. G. III. p. 117. 



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