I02Z A fuccinSi 
It may perhaps contribute to rnake this Matter fome- 
wliat eafier to the Reader, if we obferve that Tobolski 
is 86 Degrees of Longitude Eall from the Wand of Fero, 
and about 68 Degrees Eaft from London ; fo that to 
find the exadt Longitude of any of the Places mention- 
ed in the Table, there is nothing more neceffary than 
to add the refpedive Numbers before-mentioned to 
hofe which he has fet down. As for Inftance, the 
Place from whence he returned, is, in his Table, 126 
Degrees 7 Minutes Eaft from Tdobolski ; if therefore we 
add to this 86 Degrees, we find the Longitude from 
FerOy which is 2 1 2 Degrees 7 Minutes, and in the fame 
Manner by adding 68 Degrees, we find that Place to 
be 194 Degrees Eaft from the Meridian of London. 
It will not appear to one who barely perufes this Ac- 
count, without weighing and confidering it attentively, 
that there is any thing in it very extraordinary ; and yet 
to fpeak impartially, there is hardly any thing more fo 
in the Compafs of this Colleftion ; for, in the firft 
place, this Gentleman was charged with a moft arduous 
Employment, that of condufting a Number of Men 
over the greateft Trad of Land chat is perhaps in the 
World ; in doing which he was to undergo the greateft 
Hardfhips, as he adually did, and arriving at his Jour- 
ney’s End, found himfelf in one of the moft inhofpi- 
table Spots upon the Globe, there he was to build 
a ftout Velfel, where hardly any but himfelf could have 
found Materials, and vidual it in a Country where 
there was not a Dull of Meal, or any other Animal but 
Dogs ; and in this Veffel, when finifhed, he was to 
make Difcoveries on an unknown Coaft through an 
unknown Sea. It is very evident that he did all this 
■with the utmoft Spirit and Vigour, and without the 
leaft Lofs of Time, and yet it was fomewhat more than 
five Years before he reached Petersbourg again ; which, 
exclufiveof the Difficulties he met with in Travelling, 
will appear lefs ftrange, if we refled, that going and 
coming his Tourney was very little fhort of eighteen thou- 
fand Miles. 
He has llkewife given us a Table of the Nations 
inhabiting the Countries through which he travelled, 
that is very curious, and which is a Circumftance of 
ftill greater Value, feems to be very accurate and au- 
thentick, and therefore I fhall give it the Reader in the 
beft Manner I am able, and as a Thing that may be 
of Ule towards explaining any future Difcoveries that 
may be made on this Side, the Credibility of which, as I 
hinted before, ought to be regulated by their Confiften- 
cy with his Accounts. 
^abk of the fever al Nations inhabiting the Countries be- 
tween Tobolski md Kamfehatska. 
OfiiakSy living in Villages from Lobolski to the Sla- 
hoda Domianska. 
Different Tribes of the fame People on the Banks of 
the River Irtijch. 
Different Tribes of the fame People in the fix Vil- 
lages on the Banks of the River Oby^ from Surgut to 
Narim. 
Different Tribes of this Nation intermixed with 
others as far as jenifehiski, 
Hungufes in one large Town, and twenty little Vil- 
lages as far as the River Tongus. 
The fame Nation, amongft whom there are two 
Fortreffes, one Monaftery, and thirty Villages of fe- 
veral Sizes to the Mouth of the River Him. 
The fame Nation, inhabiting one large Town and 
twenty-feven Villages, as far as the Town of IlimsB. 
The fame Nation, inhabiting forty-three Towns and 
Villages, of different Sizes, as far as Kermya. 
The fame Nation and the JakutSy amongft whom 
there are two large Towns, two FortreflTes, two Con- 
vents, and thirty Villages of different Sizes, along the 
River Lena to Jakutski. 
Fongufesy Jakuts, and Lamutskiy from thence to the 
Ochotski OJirog. 
Kamfchales and Kutilesy amongft whom are two For- 
treffes on the River Kftmfcbatska^ 
Account of Book III. 
From the Mouth of the River Kamfehatskuy fleering 
North-eaft, the Coafts are inhabited by the feveral Na- 
tions of KamfchatdaleSy Kur aches y and izuktehys. 
The North-eaft Cape is diftant from Tobolski ten 
thoufand five hundred and twenty-nine Werfts, twelve 
thoufand nine hundred and feventy eight from Mofeow 
and thirteen thoufand one hundred and eighty-eio-hc 
from Petersbourg.. ^ 
We fee from hence the true State of thefevaft Coun- 
tries, and may from hence forna to purfelvcs, at leaft, 
tolerable Ideas, as well of what they produce at prefent 
to the Ruffian Government, as of the Improvements of 
which they are capable, ’in Cafe Kamfehatska Ihould be 
more fully fettled, and the Difcoveries made from thence 
render’d fome way or other ufeful in refpeft to Trade. 
It is very poffible, that within a few Years we may have 
very extenfive Hiftories, or at leaft very copious Geo- 
graphical Deferiptions of all thefe Countries made pub- 
lick with the Stamp of Authority, and then by com- 
paring them with thele T. ables, we may be very well 
able to decide whether they have alfo the Sanction of 
Truth, fince at the Time Captain Behring wrote his 
Journal, the Scheme of concealing Difcoveries was 
not adopted. 
8. We need not at all wonder, that after the Return of 
this Gentleman, ^nd the Relation of his Difcoveries was 
made publick, it occafioned much Speculation and a 
great Variety of Enquiries at Peter sbourgy in Confe- 
quence of which, it is laid, that they obtained certain 
and diftineft Accounts of coafting Voyages made by Sea 
from the Mouth of the River Lena by Cape Suetoniosy 
or, as I find it laid down in Captain Behring'^ Map, 
Cape Shelleginskiy which he places in the Latitude of 
72 Degrees 30 Minutes, and in the Longitude of 112 
Degrees from Pobolskiy and fo down to the Coafts which 
he had vifited. Upon fome Memoirs of this Kind, I 
mean of thefe Voyages from the Mouth of the River 
Lena, the Sieur Beilin publifhed at Paris m 1735, a 
Chart of thefe Difcoveries, which the Reader may find 
in Father Charlevoix*^ Hiftory of Japan ; but upon a 
ftrift Examiination, I think a proper Judge of thefe 
Matters will agree, that there cannot be any thing 
more romant^ck or ineprredt. Inftead of that vaft Con- 
tinent that Captain Behring lays down to the North-eaft 
of Kamfehatskuy we have this Peninfula enlarged vaftly 
beyond its due Bounds, and hardly any thing of that 
Continent appears ; and whereas Captain Behring pofi- 
tively lays down the moft Southern Point ofthat Peninfu- 
la round which himfelf failed, in the Latitude of 51®. 10 
Minutes, in this Map it is brought as low as 41, and 
by that Means appears to be the fame Country hereto- 
fore called the Continent of JeJfoy divided only by a nar- 
row Channel from Niphon, the largeft of the Japan 
Iflands. As this Peninfula is produced ten Degres far- 
ther South than it ought to be, fo the Continent is remo- 
ved 12 or 14 Degrees Weftward farther than it ought; 
and, in fhort, the whole of this extraordinary Piece, 
notwithftanding the Accuracy that is pretended to, is 
equally abfurd and chimerical. It muft however be al- 
lowed, that it was not poffible to difeover this without 
the Affiftacce of Captain Behring's Voyage, and of fome 
later Difcoveries ; and therefore the Author of that 
Chart is the more excufable, and all the Conclufion I 
mean to draw from what I have advanced, is, that we 
ought not to be too hafty in giving Credit to fuch kind 
of Performances, for there is a very wide Difference 
between Charts drawn from Conjediures, and thofe laid 
down by Men like Captain Behringy from their own 
Experience. But if the Reader will be direded to a 
better View of thefe Countries, I would recommend 
him to the Northern Hemifphere publifhed by Mr, 
William DefliUy in which thefe Countries are very ac- 
curately laid down. 
Before I fpeak of the fecond Expedition of Captain 
Behringy it may not be amifs to obferve, that if there 
be any Truth in the Accounts of Veffels failing from 
the Mouth of the River Lena in the Manner before- 
mentioned, it amounts to a dire(^ Demonftration, that 
the 
