NOR 
2. Fromthe Lena round Tfchukotfkoi Se or = pleas 
eaftern peony of Afia) to Kamtfch io 
Kamtfchatka to Japan. ar par, 
erfo a in one vo 
fe feas it ay eae that there is a cape between 
the rivers Chatanja and Piafida, that has never yet 
doubled. 
o 
a 
d the 
it is inferred, that it has been perfor C5 b 
one Defhneff, who, in 1648, is faid to have doubled thi 
ai aaa ia ae OF the third, or re yi Lal f this 
ubt can be entertaine eGtion be- 
patlage, : 
tween ae a ‘of Kamtfchatka and Japan has been eftablifhed 
an 
by many voyages oxe’s Account of the ian Difco- 
veries, be 4to. 1780. See Nortu-Wef P 
Nor rH Eat = in ae a Ne a a on a ifland of 
Jamaic 11’. ong a8 
See 
te aca 
—Alfo, one 
bay. §. lat. 24°. 
W. long. 
and N.W. of ard 
of the {ma is oe iflands. N. lat. 58° 38’. 
orTH Sfland, a — ifland in hee Eaft ce fea, near 
the W. coatt of Bor . lat. gi ' 
Alfo, a {mall ifland near the Ss. Souk “of Celet . S. lat. 
° 38! . long. 120° 48! ra vate a {mall wae near the 
S.W. coaft : the ifland of Bou © 39! 
—Alfo, a a itasd in the ‘Nore Pacific 
_— 
long. 122° 
ocean, in Dixon’s entran t. 54° 20!, - long. 
133° 10'.—-Alfo, an ifland 3 in the Atisane, near the coaft 
of America, at the mouth of the Great 7? river, near 
the coaft of South Carolina. . lat. W. long. 
° 3!,—Alfo, a {mall ifland in the "Pacis on ah 
6 captain eee 1779. ~N. lat. 25° 14!. ong 141° 
o'. —Alfo, {mall iffand in the Eaft Indian fea, S. lat. 5° 
38" E. eae 
Nor 
lat. 17° on 
Nor ie # Mountains, 2 a a which branches off from the 
Alleghany mountains of James’ Get extending into 
a nee as far as the river Potow 
North-eaft, Nort-ef-and hy -eaff, are fubdivifions 
of Ne compa between the tpg eaft. See Win 
Norri Point, in Ge graphy, a cape of England, on the 
coaft of Durham. N. lat. 55° 4’. W. long. 1° 2!. —Alfo, 
a a on the N. nee of the ifland of Morty. N. lat. 2° 
E. long. 12 
: See POL 
Nort rac pae a reef of | ce ifland of Hifpaniola. N. lat. 
an : P12 
3 H River, ariver cof the ifland of St. Vincent, which 
runs into the fea, one mile N. of Young Point.—Alfo, a 
river of Canada, which runs into the Utwas; 129 miles W. of 
Montreal.—Alfo, a river of North Carolina, which runs 
into Albemarle found. N. lat. 36°6'. W. long. 76° 10'".— 
Alfo, ariver of Maffachufetts, which runs into the fea be- 
tween — and Marble head.—_Alfo, a branch of Hud. 
fon’s river—Alfo, a branch of Fluviana river, in Vir- 
ginia. 
NortH Sea. See SEA 
Nortu Sound Point, a cape of the ifland of Antigua, at 
the oo) fide of the nae into Parham harbour, N,. lat 
37° 36! 
Vou. XXV. 
105° 43". 
RTH al a {mall sie in the bay of Honduras. a 
> 57's 
NOR 
NortH Star, the laft in the tail of the Little Bear; 
called alfo the pole far ; 3 which fe - 
Nortu Wales, in Geography aphy. WaALzEs 
Norru Wales, a town o Caroline county, Virginia; 2o 
miles N.W of Han 
L 
RTH-Weff, isa point or thumb, in the middle between 
na No. 
the north and we 
ortH-Weft Bay, in Coprey a bay, on the N. in 
of the ifland of Fernando Po. t. 5° 35'. FE lon 
7° 
35". 
Gee’ eft Gompany. See Company and Fur Trade. 
Nor Paffage. Much difference of opinion has 
fubfitted asto the navigable extremities of our o 
and Pacific oceans, either by failing eae reund A fia, or 
weffward, round North America. If fuch a paflage could 
be effected, it is obvious that voyages to Japan and China, 
and indeed to the Eaft Indies in general, would be much 
fhortened, and confequently_ become more profitable, than 
» by making the tedious circuit of the Cape of Good Hope. 
To this obje& the Englifh, in common with other nations, 
have directed their attention for more than two centuries. 
e fhall now fay nothing of Cabot’s original attempt in 
1497, which terminated in the difcovery of Newfoundland 
and the Labrador coaft ; but obferve, that from Frobifher’s 
firft voyage to find a weftern paflage, in 1576, to thofe of 
James and Fox, in 1630, repeated trols have been made by 
enterprifing adventurers. In the courfe of thefe voyages, 
our knowledge of the northern extent of America was en- 
larged by the difcovery of Hudfon’s and Baffin’s bays ; 
a yet the wifhed-for paffage on that fide, into the Pacific 
Both o 
ocean, was ftill unattained. ur countrymen and the 
his adtive zeal, and erleveig pear renewed the de 
rit of difcovery ; but it w. vai For Cap 
was pena ; and inftead of a paflage from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific ocean, one from the latter into the former was to 
= » 17.) 
of 20,000/. merely to o fhips batagie g 
o any of his majelty’ s fabjetts, echie of his maj spill 8 
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