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ProfefTor of Hinory, the celebrated Mr. 
Miller, and his aniftant, Mr. Fischer, 
who was afterwards ProfefTor, for the 
collecliino; of Facts from the Records of 
Siberia, and the Defcription of Nations ; 
and a ProfefTor of Natural Hinory and 
Botany, Mr. Gmelin, with two auTft- 
ants, Krascheninni koff and Stel- 
ler, fome dranghtfmen, &c. ended foon 
after the acceffion of the late Emprefs 
Elizabeth to the throne. Moft. of the 
perfons who had been out upon this ex- 
pedition, returned one after another in 
1743, and the following year; but the 
Maps they hid drawn up, were ntft en- 
graved under the direction of the Aca- 
demy of Peterfburg in 1758, by order of 
the Grand Dutchefs, the prefent Emprefs 
Catharine II. 
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