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That Cape or Mouut St. Elias was 

 named by Bebring. 



That Tchirikoff pushed his discoveries 

 as far as 49° north. 



3. The discoveries hy private individ- 

 uals to 1743. 



4. In 1763 Russian Establishments ex- 

 tended as far as the Island of Kodiak or 

 Kichtak. In 1778, Cook found them at 

 Ounalashka and some Russian inscrip- 

 tions at Kodiak. 



S. Ex. 177, pt. 4- 



That he named a point of land which 

 projects into the sea Cape St. Elias, but 

 that he never landed or took possession. 



Miillor further states, which Steller 

 confirms, ''That on the 2l8t July, leaving 

 their anchorage place between two islands 

 . . . on one of which a boat's crew 

 with Steller had lauded, they set sail and 

 attempted to trace the coast to 65^, but 

 their course was so interrupted by islands, 

 they could proceed no further north. 



From Miiller's account it is doubtful 

 "whether they ever reached America ; they 

 certainly never lauded on the mainland 

 or took possession. 



Steller likewise states he landed on 

 islands but never on the mainland. 



Beliring died in this expedition on an 

 island near Kamschatka, Avhich is now 

 called after him, and his vessel was 

 wrecked. 



Miiller's account of Tchiricoff is that 

 he made the laud in 56°, that he sent ten 

 men in a boat for water, but never return- 

 ing, it is supposed they were massacred ; 

 six more were dispatched in another boat 

 to look after their comrades who proba- 

 bly shared the same fate. 



On the 27th .July, Tchirikoff took his 

 departure for Kauischatka, and arrived 

 on the 9th October in Avatka Bay. 



The famous Astronomer De I'lsle was 

 with Tchirikoif, and it is not probable 

 that the observations he took he would 

 have made a mistake of 7 degrees. (The 

 celebrated Geographer, Guillaume De 

 I'lsle, from the papers of his brother De 

 I'Isle de la Crayere, who was with the 

 expedition, gives the latitude 55° 36'.) 



The Map alluded to was published 

 under the direction of Miiller, and which, 

 as will be seen, places Cape St. Elias 

 about 59°, and the coast discovered by 

 Tchirikoff in about 56°. (This Map is in 

 the history of Kamschatka). On refer- 

 ence to the Maps according to Cooke, 

 Vancouver, &c., it will be seen that the 

 coast where Tchirikoff made the land in 

 56°, consists entirely of islands, and 

 that 49° is Nootka Sound. 



Miiller in his Map marks the coast as 

 without islands, proving that Tchirikoff 

 mistook the islands for the mainland. 



Tchirikoff does not appear to have 

 again visited the north-west coast of 

 America. (See history of Kamschatka.) 



These discoveries were entirely to the 

 northern Archipelago so-called, named 

 the Fox and Aleutian Islands. 



The voyages from 1741 to 1778 were 

 entirely confined to the Fox and Aleutian 

 Islands, &c., not at all extending to the 

 north-west coast of America. 



Ounalashka and Kodiak are both 

 islands unconnected with the north-west 

 coast, but Captain Cook had discovered 

 and taken possession in the name of His 

 Britauuic Majesty of the whole coast, 

 which the Russian Government claims. 

 Captain Cook made the coast in 49° 29'. 



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