A VOYAGE TO 
Defhneff to have taken thefe bearings from the fmall bight 
which lies to the Weft ward of the Cape. 
The depofttion of the Coftack Popoff, taken at the Ana- 
dirfkoi oftrog , in the year 1711, feems to have been the next 
authority on which Mr. Muller has proceeded; and beftde 
thefe two, I am not acquainted with any other. This Cof- 
fack, together with feveral others, was fent by land to de¬ 
mand tribute from the independent Tfchutfki tribes, who 
lived about the Nofs. The firft circumftance in the account 
of this journey, that can lead to the fttuafion of Tfchukot- 
fkoi Nofs, is its diftance from Anadirfk; and this is ftated 
to be ten weeks journey, with loaded rein-deer; on which 
account, it is added, their day’s journey was but very fmall. 
It is impoftible to conclude much from fo vague an ac¬ 
count ; but, as the diftance between the Eaft Cape and the 
oftrog is upward of two hundred leagues in a ftraight line, 
and therefore may be fuppofed to allow twelve or fifteen 
miles a day; its lituation cannot be reckoned incompatible 
with Popoff’s calculation. The next circumftance mention¬ 
ed in this depofttion is, that their route lay by the foot of a, 
rock called Matkol, fituated at the bottom of a great gulf. 
This gulf Muller fuppofes to be the bay he had laid down 
between latitude 66° and 72 0 ; and accordingly places the 
rock Matkol in the centre of it; but it appears equally pro¬ 
bable, even if we had not fb many reafons to doubt the ex- 
iftence of that bay,, that it might be fome part of the gulf of 
Anadir, which they would undoubtedly touch upon in their 
road from the oftrog to the Eaft Cape. 
But what feems to put this matter beyond all difpute, and 
to prove that the Cape viftted by Popoff cannot be to the 
Northward of 69° latitude, is that part of his depofttion, 
which I have already quoted, relative to the ifland lying off 
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