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The celebrated Counfellor Miller, 
in his Account of the Difcoveries made 
by the Ruffians, has fhewn that, from 
the records of a town in Siberia, it ap- 
pears, that an important attempt to pe- 
netrate into the frozen fea, had already 
been made in the courfe of this expedition, 
which had failed along the coaft towards 
the north-call: ; and that one of the fmalleft 
veffels of thefe navigators had got fafe 
round the farthefi promontory of T/Iju- 
Aotjkoi-Kofs, into the fea of Kamtfchatka^ 
commonly called the Pacific Sea, and 
had landed in Lower Kamtfchaika. 
The farther profecution of this dii- 
covery was prevented by the troubles in 
Rufiia, under the ufurpation of the pow- 
erful Czar Boris Godunoff, and the 
fucceeding falfe Dernetrians : they even 
