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Thefe two circumftances are of fo ftriking and unequivo- '779- 

 cal a nature, that they appear to me conclufive on the point 

 of the Tfchukotfkoi Nofs, notwithflanding there are others 

 of a more doubtful kind, which we have from the fame 

 authority, and which now remain to be confidered. " To 

 " go," fays Defhneff in another account, '« from the Ko- 

 u vyma, to the Anadyr, a great promontory mud be doubled, 

 " which flretches very far into the fea;" and afterward, 

 " this promontory flretches between North and North Eaft." 

 It was probably from the expreflions contained in thefe 

 paflages, that Mr. Muller was induced to give the country 

 of the Tfchutfki the form we find in his map j but had he 

 been acquainted with the fituation of the Eaft Cape, as 

 afcertained by Captain Cook, and the remarkable coinci- 

 dence between it and their promontory or ifthmus (for it 

 muft be obferved, that Defhneff appears to be all along 

 fpeaking of the fame thing), in the circumftances already 

 mentioned, I am confident, he would not have thought thofe 

 expreflions, merely by themfelves, of fufficient weight to 

 warrant him in extending the North Eaflern extremity of 

 Afia, either fo far to the North or to the Eaftward. For, after 



fmall iflands lying between them, probably for the conveniency of fifliing, or in pur- 

 fuit of furs. 



It appears alfo from PopofPs depofition, which I (hall have occafion to fpeak of 

 more particularly hereafter, that the general refemblance between the people, who are 

 feen in thefe iflands, and the Tfchutfki, was fufficient to lead DefchnefFinto the error 

 of imagining them to be the fame. " Oppofite to the Nofs," he fays, " is an ifland 

 of moderate fize, without trees, whofe inhabitants refemble, in their exterior, the 

 Tfchutjki, although they are quite another nation ; not numerous indeed, yet fpeaking 

 their own particular language." Again, " One may go in a baidare from the Nofs 

 to the ifland in half a day : beyond is a great continent, which can be difcovered from 

 the ifland in ferene weather. When the weather is good, one may go from the ifland 

 to the continent in a day. The inhabitants of the continent are fimilar to the Tchutjki, 

 excepting that they fpcak another language." 



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