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north-cast wind, west. In Waigatz Strait, and to 

 the north of Nova Zembia, the current appears to 

 be hkewise west. 



After we have tried to prove that a current goes 

 to the north, through Beering's Strait, we must 

 confess, that it is too weak, and can force but 

 too httle water through the narrow entrance, to cor- 

 respond with those currents which flow from Davis' 

 Strait, and along the east coast of Greenland 

 towards the south, as they are acknowledged to 

 do during the season when these seas are open to 

 navigation, and as many facts permit us to infer 

 that they continue also in winter. * 



The indications of land to the north of Beering's 

 Straits, the flight of the birds from tlie north to 

 the south, and the not increasing depth of the sea 

 towards the north, from which Burney concludes 

 the, union of the two continents, seem to us suf- 

 ficiently explained, by the supposition that islands, 

 such as Liachoff's islands opposite the mouth of 

 the Yana in the Icy Sea, might lie in this vicinity. 

 The inhabited land of Andreef, or Andreanoflj to 

 the north of the Colima, 176i2, and the reports 

 and traditions that it extended from the continent 

 of America, as far as the new Siberia of Sannikoff, 

 1805, (the most eastern of Liachoti"'s islands,) ap- 

 pear to us equally unauthorized ; and Burney him- 

 self lays no stress upon them. 



* Quarterly Ilevie^v, June 1818, p. 446. 



