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any other country in a ftill more northern 
latitude. 
Nothing proved of more efTential fer- 
vice to thefe unfortunate men, during the 
fir ft year of their exile, than fome boards 
they found upon the beach, having a long 
iron hook, fome nails of about five or fix 
inches long, and proportionably thick, 
and other bits of old iron fixed in them; 
the melancholy relicks of fome vefTels caft 
away in thofe remote parts. Thefe were 
thrown afhore by the waves at a time 
when the want of powder gave our men 
reafon to apprehend that they muft fall a 
prey to hunger, as they had nearly con- 
fumed thofe raindeer they had killed. 
This luckv circumftance was attended 
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tioncd by fcveral authors) but \o\jsia y or j\:i/j 
Zemin. The Ruffians having taken poiienion )! this 
iiland, gave it the name o ( Kc-joiu, or Nsvu 'Lcn:iu\ 
that is, K:vj Earth, or Neiu Lznd; for the wore! 
ZemLi, in the Ruffian language, exprefTes both thcis 
ideas: and thus it is called in Ruffii, on which it :> 
dependent. 
