C 474 3 
By the Account given to Profeffor Euler, Behring 
failed Southwardly to the Ifles of Jap on, and from 
thence failed Eaftwardly yo German Miles, about 
2 yo Englifh Miles 5 which makes about 80 Leagues, 
of 20 to a Degree. At that Diftance from Japon 
he difcover'd Land, which he coafted North-Weft 5 
(till approaching towards the North-Eaft Cape, with- 
out going afhore, until he came to the Entrance of a 
great River ; where fending his Boats and Men afhore, 
they never return'd, being either loft, kill'd, or de- 
tain'd by the Natives, which made his Difcovery in- 
complete 5 his Ship being Branded, and he afterwards 
died in an uninhabited Ifland. 
As no Latitudes nor Longitudes are fixed by this 
Account, I muft believe lie failed from Kamfchatka 
South-Eaft, perhaps more Southerly than to yo° La- 
titude ; and there found Land North-Eaft from Ja- 
pan* otherwife, by coafting it North-Weft, he could 
never approach the North-Eaft Cape, which is, at 
leaft, 40? Longitude Eaft of Japon 5 and if he made 
Land 80 Leagues Eaft of Japon, he muft have failed 
North-Eaft to make the North-Eaft Cape. I have 
therefore Reafon to believe this Coaft; was Part of 
that he faw in his firft Voyage, where he loft his 
Anchor 5 and is the Coaft Gama difeoverd, and the 
‘Dutch afterwards called the Company's Land, Eaft 
of the Streights of U&icez, which is at leaft 7 or 800 
Leagues 
* The Japonefe , in their Maps of the World printed in Japon , 
have laid down in this very Tra<ft two Elands as large as Ireland , 
with the Names to them, as appears in that Map bought by Dr. 
Kempfer in Japon in 1686 ,j now in Sir Hans Shane’s Mufeum. 
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