*214 cook's VOYAGE TO JULY, 



part of his deposition which I have already quoted, 

 relative to the island lying off the Noss, from whence 

 the opposite continent might be seen. For as the two 

 continents in latitude 69°, have diverged so far as to 

 be more than three hundred miles distant, it is highly 

 improbable that the Asiatic coast should again trend 

 in such a manner to the eastward, as to come nearly 

 within sight of the coast of America. 



If these arguments should be deemed conclusive 

 against the existence of the peninsula of theTschutski, 

 as laid down by Muller, it will follow that the East Cape 

 of the Tschukotskoi Noss of the* more early Russian 

 navigators, and consequently that the undescribed coast 

 from the latitude of (39° to the mouth of the river Ko- 

 vyma, must uniformly trend more or less to the west- 

 ward. Asanadditionalproof of this, it maybe remarked 

 that the Tschukotskoi Noss is always represented as 

 dividing the sea of Kovyma from that of Anadir, 

 which could not be the case if any considerable cape 

 had projected to the north-east in the higher latitudes. 



Thus, in the depositions taken at Anadirsk, it is 

 related " that opposite the Noss, on both sides, as 

 well in the sea of Kovyma as in that of Anadir, an 

 island is said to be seen at a great distance, which 

 the Tschutski call a large country ; and say that 

 people dwell there who have large teeth put in their 

 mouths that project through their cheeks. " Then 

 follows a description of these people and their country, 

 exactly corresponding with our accounts of the oppo- 

 site continent. 



The last question that arises is, to what degree of 

 northern latitude this coast extends, before it trends 

 more directly to the westward. If the situation of 

 the mouth of the Kovyma, both with respect to its 



* I mention the more early Russian navigators, because Beering, 

 whom we have also followed, and after him all the late Russian 

 geographers, have given this name to the south-east cape of the 

 peninsula of the Tschutski, which was formerly called the Anadir- 

 skoi Noss. 



