THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
the Nofs, from whence the oppofite continent might be feen. 
For as the two continents, in latitude 69°, have diverged fo 
far as to be more than three hundred miles diftant, it is 
highly improbable, that the Afiatic coaft fhould again trend 
in fuch a manner to the Eaftward, as to come nearly within 
fight of the coaft of America. 
If thefe arguments fhould be deemed concluftve againft 
the exiftence of the peninfula of the Tfchutfid, as laid down 
by Muller, it will follow, that the Eaft Cape is the Tfchu- 
kotfkoi Nofs of the * more early Ruffian navigators ; and, 
confequently, that the undefcribed coaft, from the latitude 
of 69° to the mouth of the River Kovyma, nrnft uniformly 
trend more or lefs to the Weft ward. As an additional proof 
of this, it may be remarked, that the Tfchukotikoi Nofs is 
always reprefented as dividing the fea of Kovyma from that 
of Anadir, which could not be the cafe, if any confider- 
able cape had projedted to the North Eaft in the higher la¬ 
titudes. Thus, in the depofttions taken at Anadirfk, it is 
related, “ that oppofite the Nofs, on both fides, as well in 
£< the fea of Kovyma, as in that of Anadir, an ifiand is faid 
“ to be feen at a great diftance, which the Tfchutiki call a 
“ large country ; and fay, that people dwell there who have 
“ large teeth put in their mouths, that project through their 
66 cheeks.” Then follows a defcription of thefe people and 
their country, exadlly correfponding with our accounts of 
the oppofite continent. 
The laft queftion that arifes is, to what degree of Northern 
latitude this coaft extends, before it trends more diredtly to 
* I mention the more early Ruffian navigators, becaufe Beering, whom we have alfo 
followed, and after him all the late Ruffian geographers, have given this name to the 
South Eaft Cape of the peninfula of the Tfchutfki, which was formerly called the Ana- 
dirlkoi Nofs. 
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