12 ACCOUNT OF THE AllCTIC r.EGIONS. 



far towards establishing the existence of a communi- 

 cation between the Spitzbergen sea and the Pacific 

 Ocean. 



SECT. IL 



Remarks on the supposed Communication hetweeu 

 the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans^ by the North- 

 East. 



The Russians, it appears, have at intervals dis- 

 covered all the navigation between Archangel and 

 the Strait of Behring, excepting a portion of about 

 200 miles, occupied by the eastern part of a noss 

 or promontory lying between the rivers Khatanga 

 and Piacina. The northern extremity of this noss, 

 called Cape Ceverovostochnoi, appears to have been 

 doubled by Lieutenant ProntschitschefF^ in the 

 year 1735 so that ice, and perhaps some small 

 islands, seem in this place to form the great ob- 

 struction to the navigation. As far as can be well 

 substantiated, the portion of the route between 

 Archangel and Kamtchatka, which has been hi- 

 therto accomplished, was performed in the following 

 manner. 



Lieutenant Morovieff accomplished the naviga- 

 tion from Archangel towards the river Obe, as far 

 as the latitude 72° 30' on the west coast of the pc- 



