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examine farther into the ftate and fituation 
of Ka mtj 'chat ka, and the neighbouring fea, 
called the Sea of Kamtfchatka, or the Pa- 
cific Ocean; together with the lands and 
iflands lying beyond it, to the calr, the 
fouth, and the north. This expedition 
was fent out from Peterfburg, in the fum- 
mcr of 1734, and was called the Kamt- 
fchatka Expedition. 
It is needlefs to treat of it at large, as a 
full account is to be met with in the excel- 
lent Collection of Ruffian Tranfaclions, 
publifhed in 1758, by Mr. Miller. In 
the third volume, which treats of voyages, 
&c. the author gives a circumftantial ac- 
count of this expedition, and how far the 
Ruffians had carried their difcoveries into 
the Pacific Ocean, to the north, the calr, 
and the fouth. He relates, thatBEHRiNG 
difcovered feveral iflands to the north- 
ern" ; 
