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To the Southward of this Cape he conceives the coaft to 1779. 
form a bay to the Weftward, bounded, in latitude 67° 18', by , 
Serdze Kamen, the Northernmoft point feen by Beering in 
his expedition in the year 1728. The map, publfthedby the 
academy of St. Peterfburg, in the year 1776, gives the 
whole peninfula entirely a new form, placing its North 
Eafternmoft extremity in the latitude 73 0 , longitude 178° 30". 
The Eafternmoft point in latitude 65° 30", longitude 189° 30C 
All the other maps we faw, both printed and in manuscript, 
vary between thefe two, apparently more according to the 
fancy of the compiler, than on any grounds of more accu¬ 
rate information. The only point in which there is a gene¬ 
ral coincidence, without any conftderable variation, is in the 
pofttion of the Eaft Cape in latitude 66°. The form of the 
coaft, both to the South and North of this Cape, in the map 
of the academy, is exceedingly erroneous, and may be to¬ 
tally difregarded. In that of Mr. Muller, the coaft to the 
Northward bears a conftderable refemblance to our furvey, 
as far as the latter extends, except that it does not trend Suf¬ 
ficiently to the Weftward; receding only about 5 0 of longi¬ 
tude, between the latitude of 66 CT and 69°; whereas, in rea¬ 
lity, it recedes near ten. Between the latitude of 69° and 74 0 , 
he makes the coaft bend round to the North and North 
Eaft, and to form a conftderable promontory.. On what au¬ 
thority, now remains to be examined. 
Mr. Coxe, whofe accurate refearches into this fubjedt, 
give his opinion great weight, is perfuaded that the ex¬ 
tremity of the Nofs in queftion, was never pafted but by 
Defhneff and his party, who failed from the river Kovyma 
in the year 1648, and are fuppofed to have got round it 
into the Anadir. As the account of this expedition, the 
ihbftance of which the Reader will find in Mr. Coxe’s Ac¬ 
count 
