A VOYAGE TO 
count of Ruffian Difcoveries, contains no geographical de¬ 
lineation of the coaft along which they failed, its pofition 
rauft be conjectured from incidental circiimftances; and 
from thefe it appears very manifeft, that the Tfchukotfkoi 
Nofs of Defhneff is no other than the promontory called, 
by Captain Cook, the Eaft Cape. Speaking of the Nofs, he 
fays, “ One might fail from the ifthmus to the river Ana- 
“ dir, with a fair wind, in three days and three nights.” 
This exaCtly coincides with the fituation of the Eaft Cape, 
which is about one hundred and twenty leagues from the 
mouth of the Anadir; and as there is no other ifthmus to 
the Northward between that and the latitude of 69°, it is 
obvious, that, by this defcription, he rnuft intend either the 
Cape in queftion, or fome other to the Southward of it. 
In another place he fays, “ Overagainft the ifthmus there 
u are two iflands in the fea, upon which were feen people 
66 of the Tfchutlki nation, through whofe lips were run 
(( pieces of the teeth of the fea-horfe.” This again per¬ 
fectly agrees with the two iflands fttuated to the South Eaft 
of the Eaft Cape. We faw indeed no inhabitants on them; 
but it is not at all improbable, that a party of the Ameri¬ 
cans, from the oppolite continent, whom this defcription 
accurately fuits, might, at that time, have been accidentally 
there; and whom it was natural enough for him to mif- 
take for a tribe of the Tfchutfki *. 
Thefe 
* From the clrcumftance, related in the Iaft Volume, that gave name to Sledge 
Iiland, it appears, that the inhabitants of the adjacent continents vifit occafionally the 
fmall iflands lying between them, probably for the conveniency of fifhing, or in purfuit 
of furs. 
It appears alfo from Popoff’s depofition, which I fhall have occaflon to fpeak of more 
particularly hereafter, that the general refemblance between the people, who are feen 
in 
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