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XIT. A Letter from Arthur Dobbs Efq\ of 
Caftle-Dobbs in Ireland, to the Rev . Mr. 
Charles Wetftein, Chaplain and Secretary 
to His Royal Highnefs the ‘Prince of Wales, 
concerning the ID [fiances between Alia and. 
America. 
Jl-zo.d April 9 
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I 
SI R , 
AM extremely obliged to you for the 
Trouble you have taken, in corre- 
fponding with Profeffor Euler * upon the Ruffian 
Difcoveries Eaftward from Kamfchatka , and coni' 
municating to me the Accounts he had of Behrings* 
laft Voyage, and of his Difcovery of the Lands 
North -Eaft of Japan, which the Profeffor could 
only have inaccurately, not having feen any 
Journal to fix the Latitude and Longitude of the 
Countries he then difcovcr’d: But fince Profeffor 
Euler , fway’d by the Opinion of Captain Behring , 
feems ftill to believe that the laft Land he difcoveVd 
is joined to California , which Country is now known 
to be Part of the Continent of America , and notan 
Ifland (in which Fad of its being continuous to Ca- 
lifornia I differ ftill in Opinion from him,) for, if 
that were a Fad to be depended upon, I would can- 
didly oivn, that there could be no Paflage from the 
North-Weft of Hudfon$-Bay to the Weftern Ocean 
of America,^ without failing near 70° of Longitude 5 
the Diftance of the North-Eaft Cape of AJia from 
the North- Weft of Hudforis-Bay, in a Parallel almoft 
as far North as the Polar Circle, before the Paffage 
can; 
See Tranf N°. 482, p. 42 r, 
