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'7-9- all, thefe expreflions arc not irrcconcilcablc with the opinion 



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we have adopted, if we fuppole Defhneff to have taken thefe 

 bearings from the fmall bight which lies to the Wefhvard 

 of the Cape. 



The depofition of the CofTac PopofF, taken at the Anadir- 

 fkoi ojlrogy in the year 17 11, fecms to have been the next 

 authority on which Mr. Muller has proceeded ; and befide 

 thefe two, I am not acquainted with any other. This Coffac, 

 together with feveral others, was fent by land to demand 

 tribute from the independent Tfchutfki tribes, who lived 

 about the Nofs. The firft circumftance, in the account of 

 this journey, that can lead to the fituation of Tfchukotfkoi 

 Nofs, is its diftancc from Anadirfk; and this is dated to be 

 ten weeks journey, with loaded rein-deer; on which ac- 

 count it is added, their day's journey was but very fmall. It 

 is impoflible to conclude much from fo vague an account ; 

 but, as the diftance between the Eaft Cape and the ojirog is 

 upward of two hundred leagues in a ftraight line, and 

 therefore may be fuppofed to allow twelve or fifteen miles a 

 day ; its fituation cannot be reckoned incompatible with Pop- 

 ofl's calculation. The next circumilancc mentioned in this 

 depofition is, that their route lay by the foot of a rock called 

 Matkol, fituated at the bottom of a great gulf. This gulf 

 Muller fuppofes to be the bay he had laid down between 

 latitude 66° and 72° ; and accordingly places the rock 

 Matkol in the center of it ; but it appears equally probable, 

 even if we had not fo many reafons to doubt the exigence of 

 that bay, that it might be fome part of the gulf of Anadir, 

 which they would undoubtedly touch upon in their road 

 from the ojlrog to the Eaft Cape. 



But what fecms to put this matter beyond all difputc, and 



to prove that the Cape vifited by Popoff cannot be to the 



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