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Northward of 69 latitude, is that part of his depofition, \779-. 



which I have already quoted, relative to the ifland lying- off ' — — . ' 



the Nofs, from whence the oppofite continent might be feen. 

 For as the two continents, in latitude 69 s , have diverged fo 

 far as to be more than three hundred miles diftant, it is 

 highly improbable, that the Afiatic coafl mould again trend 

 in fuch a manner to the Eaflward, as to come nearly within 

 fight of the Coafl of America. 



If thefe arguments mould be deemed conclufive againft 

 the exiflence of the peninfula of the Tfchutfki, as laid down 

 by Muller, it will follow, that the Eafl Cape is the Tfchu- 

 kotfkoi Nofs of the * more early Ruffian navigators ; and, 

 confcquently, that the undefcribed coafl, from the latitude 

 of 69 to the mouth of the river Kovyma, mud uniformly 

 trend more or lefs to the Well ward. As an additional proof 

 of this, it may be remarked, that the Tfchukotfkoi Nofs is 

 always reprcfented as dividing the fea of Kovyma from that 

 of Anadir, which could not be the cafe, if any consider- 

 able cape had projected to the North Eafl in the higher 

 latitudes. Thus, in the depofitions taken at Anadirfk, 

 it is related, " that oppofite the Nofs, on both fides, as well 

 " in the fea of Kovyma, as in that of Anadir, an ifland is faid 

 " to be feen at a great diflance, which the Tfchutfki call a 

 " large country ; and fay, that people dwell there who have 

 " large teeth put in their mouths, that project through their 

 " checks." Then follows a defcription of thefe people and 

 their country, exactly correfponding wiih our accounts of 

 the oppofite continent. 



* 1 mention the more early Ruffian navigators, becaufe Beering, whom we have 

 a! fo followed, and after him all the late Ruffian geographers, have given this name 

 tothe-South Kaft Cape of the peninfula of the Tfehuuki, which was formerly called 

 the AnaJirfkoi Nbifsj 



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