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for a great Way, tho 9 I cannot fay how far : From 
whence alone it will appear, that an Abatement 
muft be made in the Diftance of 30 Degrees, or 
thereabouts, which you fuppofc to be between the 
laft known Head Land of California towards the 
Weft, and the fartheft Extremity of this new difeo* 
vered Land towards the Eaft. 
Secondly, Capt. Behring having had the Opportunity 
ofobferving an Eclipfe of the Moon as Kamfichatka, 
concluded from the fame, that that Place lay much 
farther off to the Eaft, than is expreffed in any Map ; 
and that, to reprefent it truly, it ought to be tranf- 
ferred into the other Hemifphere, as its Longitude 
is more than 180 Degrees [Eaft from the Ifle of 
Ferro j. For this Reafon Captain Behrings new 
Land will be conftderably approached to the laft 
known Part of C alifornia y and will not indeed appear 
to be many Degrees from it. 
What w 7 e have therefore ftill to hope is only, 
that in this unknown Diftrift there may be found 
fome Streight, by which the Pacific Sea may freely 
communicate with Hudforis Bay 5 but if it fhall ap- 
pear that there is no fuch Fafiage, it muft then be 
concluded, that whatever further Progrefs may hap* 
pen to be made through Hudfons Bay , the Opening 
at laft muft only be into the Frozen Sea , from 
whence there could be no palling into the Pacific 
Ocean , but by the Neighbourhood of Kamfichatka j 
and this Way would without doubt be too long, and 
too dangerous, to be mafter’d in the Courfe of one 
Summer. 
I very much doubt whether the RuJJians will ever 
publifh the Particulars of their Difcoveries, either 
fuch as have been made from Kamfichatka to- 
wards 
