the great comment which is supposed to 
exist there. 1 he principal obstacle they 
met with, was the thin ice, which being 
broken to pieces by contihued storms, 
t\\as piled up in mountains, and rendered. \ 
farther progress impossible. At a bear 
hunt which the company undertook, they I 
observed a sudden bursting of the ice, ac-J 
companied with a dreadful noise resem-l 
bling thunder. On iheir journey back, 
which the travellers were ob iged to make 
without accomplishing their object, they 
surveyed the Bear Islands, and after an 
absence of 38 days, arrived safely at Neu- 
kolyma on the 28th Apri , where they arc 
to remain for the year 1822, and then to 
I continue their researches. 
