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'779- the Kofs in queftion, was never patted but by Defhneff and 

 his party, who failed from the river Kovyma in the year 

 1648, and are fuppofed to have got round it into the Anadyr. 

 As the account of this expedition, the fubflance of which 

 the Reader will find in Mr. Coxe's Account of Ruffian Difco- 

 veries, contains no geographical delineation of the coafl 

 along which they failed, its pofition muff be conjectured 

 from incidental circumftances ; and from thefe it appears 

 very manifeft, that the Tfchukotfkoi Nofs of DcmnefF is no 

 other than the promontory called, by Captain Cook, the 

 Eaft Cape. Speaking of the Nofs, he fays, " One might 

 " fail from the ifthmus to the river Anadyr, with a 

 " fair wind, in three days and three nights." This exactly 

 coincides with the fituation of the Eaft Cape, which is about 

 one hundred and twenty leagues from the mouth of the 

 Anadyr ; and as there is no other ifthmus to the Northward 

 between that and the latitude of 69 , it is obvious, that, by 

 this defcription, he muft intend either the Cape in queftion, 

 or fome other to the Southward of it. In another place he 

 fays, " Over againft the ifthmus there are two iflands in 

 " the fea, upon which were feen people of the Tfchutfki 

 " nation, through whofe lips were run pieces of the teeth 

 " of the fea-horfe." This again perfectly agrees with the 

 two iilands fituated to the South Eaft of the Eaft Cape. We 

 law indeed no inhabitants on them ; but it is not at all im- 

 probable, that a party of the Americans, from the oppofite 

 continent, whom this defcription accurately fuits, might, at 

 that time, have been accidentally there ; and whom it was 

 natural enough for him to miftake for a tribe of the 



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* From the circumfrance, related in the laft Volume, that gave name to Sledge 

 illand, it appears, that the inhabitants of the adjacent continents viiit occasionally the 



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