BER PNeG?s’:S TRELG OTS. 
far into the fea due ealt, and joined to the land by along and very narrow ifthmus, 
in lat. 66.6. This is the T/chut/ei No/s of our navigators, and forms the beginning 
of the narrow ftreights or divifion of the old and new world. The diftance between 
Afiaand America in this place is only thirteen leagues. The country about the cape, 
and to the north-weft of it, was inhabited. About mid-channel are two finall iflands, 
named by the Ru/fians the ifles of St. Diomedes; neither of them abave three or 
four leagues in circuit}. It is extremely extraordinary that Berinc fhould 
have failed through this confined paflage, and yet that the object of his miffion 
fhould have efcaped him. His misfortune could only be attributed to the foggy 
weather, which he muft have met with in a region notorious for mifts ¢ ; for he 
fays that he faw land neither to the north nor to the eaft§. Our generous 
commander, determined to give him every honor his merit could clame, has dig- 
nified thefe with the name cf Berinc’s STREIGHTS. 
The depth of thefe ftreights is from twelve to twenty-nine or thirty fathoms. 
The greateft depth is in the middle, which has a flimy bottom; the fhalloweft 
parts are near each fhore, which confiits of fand mixed with bones and fhells. 
The current or tide very inconfiderable, and what there was came from the weft. 
From E£af Cape the land trends fouth by weft. In lat. 65. 36, is the bay in 
which Captain Coox had the interview with the Z/chut/ei. Immediately beyond 
is the bay of St. Laurence, about five leagues broad in the entrance, and four deep, 
bounded at the bottom by high land. A little beyond is a large bay, either 
bounded by low land at the bottom, or fo extenfive as to have the end invifible. 
‘To the fouth of this are two other bays ; and in lat. 64. 13, long. 186. 36, is the 
extreme fouthern point of the land of the Y/chut/fki. ‘This formerly was called 
the Anadirfkoi Nofs) Near it Bertnc had converfation with eight men, who 
came off to him in a daidar, or boat covered with the fkins of feals ; from which 
Berinc and others have named it the T/chut/ki Nofs. A few leagues to the 
‘fouth-eaft of this point lies Clerke’s ifland, in lat 63. 15, difcovered by Capt. Coox; 
and immediately beyond a larger, on which Berinc beftowed the name of St. 
‘Laurence: the laft, the refort of the T/chut/ki in their fifhing parties ||. Both 
of thefe confift of high cliffs, joined by low land. A fmall ifland was feen about 
nineteen leagues from St. Laurence’s, in a north-eaft by eaft half eaft dire@tion ; 
I fufpe& it to be that which Capt. Cook named Anderfon’s, in memory of his 
furgeon, who died off it, and from his amiable charaéter feems to have well 
* See the chart of them, Voyage, vol. ii, tab. 53. + Voy, ii. 445. iil. 243. t Voyage ii. 
470. and Meteorolog. Tables, ili. App. 512, 5135 520, 521» § Harris's Coll. ii. 1020. 
\| Muller's Voy. des Ruffes, ie 142. 
Pi2 merited 
Cx 
* Berinc’s 
STREIGHTS» 
Deprun. 
CurRENT. 
IsLEs OF CLERKE 
AND 
Sr. Laurence. 
