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from thence towards the weft, is fandy and low 
for 5 verftes. Round the fhores, there are no rocks 
under water; which one may know from thence, 
becaufe there are no * eddies [breakers]. 
From the higheft rocks of that ifland, one fees 
the following lands : at the fouth, two iflands, one 
of which meafures about 7 verftes in circumference, 
as was oblerved before ; but the other is over-againft 
the very end of Berings ifland, at the fouth -weft: it 
conflfts of two high and cleft rocks, of about three 
verftes in circumference, and is at 14 verftes diftance 
from Berings ifland. 
From the north-eaft end of Berings ifland, in clear 
weather, one may fee, to the north-eaft, very high 
mountains, covered with fnow, and their diftance 
may be computed at 100 or 140 verftes. Thofe 
mountains our author thought, with better grounds, 
to be a cape of the continent of America, than an 
ifland: 1. Becaufe thofe mountains [allowing for] 
confidering their diftance, were higher than the 
mountains on the [neighbouring] iflands. 2. Becaufe 
that, at a like diftance towards the eaft, one obferves 
plainly, from the ifland, fuch like white mountains, 
from the height and extent of which all judged that 
it was the continent. 
From the fouth-eaft end of Berings ifland, they 
faw, to the fouth-eaft alfo, another ifland, but not 
very clearly : it feemed to lie between Berings ifland 
and [fome] low part of the continent. 
From the weft and the fouth-weft fides, it was 
obferved, that, even in clear weather, there is a per- 
* In German, Irtnnung. 
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