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fuccefsful attempts of Shalauroff, and the obftacles we met w* 

 with, in two different years, in our prefent voyage. 



The continent, left undetermined in our chart, between 

 Cape North, and the mouth of the Kovyma, is, in longitu- 

 dinal extent, one hundred and twenty- five leagues. One 

 third, or about forty leagues, of this diftance, from the 

 the Kovyma Eaftward, was explored in the year 1723, bv a 

 Sinbojarfkoi of Jakutz, whofe name was Fedot Amoflbff; by 

 whom Mr. Muller was informed, that its direction was to 

 the Eaftward. It is faid to have been fince accurately fur- 

 veyed by Shalauroff, whofe chart makes it trend to the 

 North Eaft by Eaft, as far as the Shelatfkoi Nofs, which he 

 places about forty-three leagues to the Eaftward of the 

 Kovyma. The fpace between this Nofs and Cape North, 

 about eighty-two leagues, is therefore the only part of the 

 Ruffian empire that now remains unascertained. 



But if the river Kovyma be erroneoufly fituated with re- 

 fpeft to its longitude, as well as in its latitude, a fuppolition 

 for which probable grounds are not wanting, the extent of 

 the unexplored coaft will become proportionably diminiflied. 

 The reafons which incline me to believe, that the mouth 

 of this river is placed in the Ruffian charts much too far to the 

 Weftward, are as follow : Firft, becaufe the accounts that are 

 given of the navigation of the Frozen Sea from that river, 

 round the North Eaft point of Afia, to the gulf of Anadir, 

 do not accord with the fuppofed diftance between thofe 

 places. Secondly, becaufe the diftance over land, from the 

 Kovyma to the Anadir, is reprefented by the early Ruffian 

 travellers as a journey eafily performed, and of no very ex- 

 traordinary length. Thirdly, becaufe the coaft from the 

 Shelatfkoi Nofs of Shalauroff* feems to trend directly South 



* See Chart in Coxe's Account of Ruffian Difcoverics. 



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