THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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Thefe two circumftances are of fo ftriking and unequi¬ 
vocal a nature, that they appear to me conclulive on the 
point of the Tfchukotlkoi Nofs, notwithftanding there are 
others of a more doubtful kind, which we have from the 
fame authority, and which now remain to be conlidered. 
To go,” fays DedmefF in another account, u from the 
u Kovyma to the Anadir, a great promontory muft be 
u doubled, which llretches very far into the feaand af¬ 
terward, u this promontory llretches between North and 
u North Ealt.” It was probably from the expreffions con¬ 
tained in thefe paffages, that Mr. Muller was induced to 
give the country of the Tfchutlki the form we find in his 
map; hut had he been acquainted with the fituation of the 
Eafh Gape, as afcertained by Captain Cook, and the remark¬ 
able coincidence between it and this promontory or ifth- 
mus (for it mull be obferved, that DelhnelF appears to be 
all along fpeaking of the fame thing), in the circumftances 
already mentioned, I am confident, he would not have 
thought thofe expreffions, merely by themfelves, of fuffi- 
cient weight to warrant him in extending the North Eaft- 
ern extremity of Afia, either fo far to the North or to the 
E aft ward. For, after all, thefe expreffions are not irrecon- 
cileable with the opinion we have adopted, if we fuppofe 
in thefe iflands, and the Tfchutfki, wasfufficient to lead Deflineffinto the error of ima¬ 
gining them to be the fame. cc Oppofite to the Nofs,” he fays, “ is an ifland of mode¬ 
rate fize, without trees, whofe inhabitants refemhle , in their exterior , the Tfchutfki , although 
they .are quite another nation ; not numerous indeed, yet fpeaking their own particular 
language.” Again, u One may go in a baidare from the Nofs to the ifland in half a 
day: beyond is a great continent, which can be difcovered from the ifland in ferene 
weather. When the weather is good, one may go from the ifland to the continent in a 
day. The inhabitants of the continent are funilar to the Tfchutfki , excepting that they Jpeak an¬ 
other language 
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