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GEOGRAPHY. 
the eafl boinulai'y of this fea, to the point of wliicli the 
JefTo and Kurile Iflands form a chain from Japan. The 
coad from this point runs north-caft by the fea of Kamt- 
fcliatka, along to the Gulf of Anadir, the country be¬ 
tween belonging alfo to the Koriaks in this eaflern part: 
the north coaft of which gulf turning to tlie ead and 
loath of eaft, afterwards trends about to the northward 
to Eaft Cape, which is the point of Beering’s Strait on 
the weft fide between the eafiernmoft point of Afia and 
the wefiernmoft point of America. Here, therefore, 
terminate the coalts of Afia. 
EAST COASTS of NORTH AMERICA. 
Beginning from the north, we can only obfen-e in ge¬ 
neral, that the large peninfula to tlie eaft of Davis’s 
Straits and Baffin’s Bay, is known by the general name 
of Greenland^ and fometimes its eaft coaft is called Old 
Greenland. For the dreary country on the north of 
Cumberland Straits round Cape 'VTalfingliam, we have 
no diftimff name; but that to the fouth-eaft Horn Hud- 
fon’s Straits to the ftraits of Belleille, at the north end 
of Newfoundland, is known by the name of the Labra¬ 
dor Coaft, as well as the north coaft of the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence. Sometimes, however, this laft is called the 
coaft of Efquimaux, and extends northward without 
the ftrait as far as to Cape Harrifon, the north point of 
the entrance into the great bay of Efquimaux. On the 
main continent, on the weft fide of the Gulf of St. Law¬ 
rence, is the country or coaft of New Brunfwick, on tlie 
fouth of Chaleurs Bay, and Nova Scotia eaftward of the 
bay of Fundy, running up to tile nortli-eaft nearly to 
Cape Breton Iftand. The extenfivc coaft of New Eng¬ 
land fucceeds to New Brunfwick on the fouth-weft ; in 
which are comprehended the coafts of New Hampftiire, 
Maflrachufett’'s, Rhode Iftand State, and Connecticut. 
To thefe on the weft fuccceds New York, which has but 
a fmall extent of coaft, to the eaftward of tlie city and 
iftand of its name, and that is up the Eaft River, or paf- 
fage into Long Iftand Sound. On the weft and foutli 
is the coaft of New Jerfey, as far as to Cape May, the 
northern point of the entrance into the River Delaware. 
The coaft of Maryland then ftretches along foiuherly to 
Cape Charles, the north point of the entrance into the 
Chefapeak River or Bay ; but fome divifions of the 
country make the coaft down the weft fide of tiic Dela¬ 
ware River by Cape Ilinlopen, and two or three leagues 
to the fouth of Relioboth Bay, to belong to Pennfylva- 
rda, which diininiffies the extent of the Maryland Coaft, 
as juft reprefented. Virginia next fucceeds from Cape 
Henry, the fouth point of the Chefiipeak, which lias 
but a very fmall extent of coaft, as far as to Currituck 
Inlet, or tlie northern part of Currituck Sound; after 
which North Carolina ftretches along to the fouth and 
fotiih-weft 10 the weftward of Cape Fear, near Little 
River, where the coaft of South Carolina begins, and 
firetclie.. away to Savannah River. Tliis is the boun¬ 
dary, for a long way up the country, to Georgia, the 
coaft of which extends to the fouth as far as i''oi t St, 
George, to the north of St. Auguftine. Here tlie coaft 
of Eaft Florida begins, which comprehends the penin 
fula, and here forms the weft Ihore of the channel of 
Bahama or Gull of Florida, from Cape Canaveral to 
Cape Sable, or the fouth point. The other coaft of the 
pe.iinlula forms tlie eaft boundary of the Gulf of Mexi¬ 
co, and m the eery bight of the gulf, in the north-eaft 
angle, comes in the fmall river of St. Mark into Apala- 
chy B.iy, which is the limit on the coaft between Eaft 
and Weft Florida. This extends weftward to the 
nioiitJts of the Miffiffippi, on the weft fide of which is 
Louifiaiia or New Orleans, as far as to Cape North, and 
to that New Mexico fucceeds ; and on the weft end of 
the gulf, new Leon is to the fouth-weft and fouth; and 
Panuco or Guafteco to the fouth of that. The coaft of 
Tlalcala next fucceeds, near the fouth-weft angle of the 
gulfj and to the eaftward of it, at the bottom of the bay 
of Campeachy, are the coafts of Guaxnca and Tabafeo. 
The peninl'vila of Yucatan then fucceeds to the north- 
eaft, ftretcliing firft nearly nortli to Cape Conderedo, 
then eaft to Cape Catoche, and then fonth-fouth-w (ft 
into the biglit or bay of Guanacos, in the bottom of the 
great bay of Honduras. Here commences the coaft of 
Vera Paz, and of Honduras to the eaft of it, round the 
cape of its name to Cape Gratios a Dios. Tlie coaft of 
Nicaragua commences a little to the foullt, in the d.- 
redlion of the land from this cape; to witich fuccc.ed's 
Cofta Rica, and Veragua to the fouth-eaft and eaft of 
that. This nearly completes the coaft of Nortli Ame¬ 
rica on the eaft fide, and round the Gulf of Mexico. 
COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
Having now approached the Ifthmus of Darien, where 
the limits of North and South America commence, the 
coaft falls away from thence to the fouth-eaft into the 
Gulf of Darien. The coaft of Carthagena then trends^ 
from the gulf to the north eaft to Cape Galera, and of 
St. Martha from thence eaft nearly to Coquibacoa, or 
the weft point of the entrance into the Gulf ot Vene¬ 
zuela, within which, and to the eaftward from Cape St. 
Roman, the eaft point of that entrance, is the coaft fi> 
called. To this fucceed the coafts of Caraccas and 
Comana, and to the I'outhward of Trinadad Ifte is Pa- 
ria. All thefe, from Carthagena hither, are known by 
the general name of the coaft of Terra Firma. 
New Comana, on the fouth of the Oroonoko River 
and Iflands, next fucceeds ; and to the louth-eaft are 
Dutch Guiana, French Guiana, and Portugueie Guiana 
fucceffively, to the north coaft of the River of the Ama¬ 
zons. From hence eaftward to Cape St. Roque is cal¬ 
led the North Coaft of Brazil; from Cape St. Roque 
fouthward to Cape St. Thome is the Eaft Coaft of Bra¬ 
zil ; and from Cape St. Thorne to the Ifie of St. Ca¬ 
therine, in the direction of louth-weft is the South Coaft 
of Brazil. From hence the coaft of Portugueie Para- 
guay ftretches along to fouth-fouth-weft to the River- 
La Plata. To the I'outhward the coaft trends a little 
tvefterly, which is called the Defert Coaft, as far as to 
Patagonia, in approaching the Straits of Magellan ; on 
the foutli of which is the iflaiid of Terra del Fuego, and 
on its eaft is Le Maire Strait and Staten Ifland. "1 he 
coaft of Patagonia extends northward on the weft coaft 
or South Pacific Ocean as far as to the Cliiloe lilands, 
where the coaft of Chili begins, and goes north to the 
River Salada, beyond which on the fouth of Cobija, in 
about twenty-tlirce degrees of latitude fouth, is the li¬ 
mit. Flere the coaft of Peru commences, and extends 
to about two degrees of north latitude. From hence 
northward the coaft of Popayan ftretches to the eaft 
part of Panama Bay, and Darien to the north of that 
bay ; near which is the termination of the South Ame¬ 
rican coaft. 
WEST COASTS of NORTH AMERICA. 
From Panama Bay the coaft begins to turn iveftward, 
and is known by the name of the Veragua Coaft, as on 
the fouth coaft of the Caribbean Sea; to which on the 
north-weft is Cofta Rica, Nicaragua, and Guatimala, as- 
far as to the bay of Tecoantepec. Then fucceed Gu- 
axaca, Tlafcala, Mexico Proper, Meciioacan, Zalifeo, 
and Guadalajara. Navarra is to the north-welt of the 
laft, within the Gulf of California; and the peninfula 
of California is on the weft fide of the gulf, parallel to 
Navarra. To that fucceeds the coaft of New Albion; 
and the coaft trends to the weft of north to Cape Flat¬ 
tery and Nootka Sound, without any particular name. 
It then trends about north-weft to Nepean’s Sound, and 
fo on to Prince William’s Sound in latitude fixty de¬ 
grees north ; and then turns fouth-weft to the mouth 
of Cook’s River, and ftretches on in the fame diredtion 
to the point of Oonalaffika or Oenemac, or the I'outh- 
e;ift fide of the peninfula of Alalka. Briftol Bay is on 
