Gape North, and the mouth of the Kovyma, is, in longitu¬ 
dinal extent, one hundred and twenty-five leagues. One 
third, or about forty leagues, of this diftance, from the 
Kovyma Eallward, was explored in the year 1723, by a Sin- 
bojarjkoi of Jakutz, whofe name was Feodor Amofibff; by 
whom Mr. Muller was informed, that its direction was to 
the Eallward. It is faid to have been fince accurately fur- 
veyed by Shalauroff, whofe chart makes it trend to the 
North Eaft by Eaft, as far as the Shelatlkoi Nofs, which he 
places about forty-three leagues to the Eallward of the 
Kovyma. The fpace between this Nofs and Cape North, 
about eighty-two leagues, is therefore the only part of the 
Ruffian empire that now remains unafcertained. 
But if the river Kovyma be erroneoully fituated with re- 
fpe£t to its longitude, as well as in its latitude, a fuppofition 
for which probable grounds are not wanting, the extent of 
the unexplored coaft will become proportionably diminilhed. 
The reafons which incline me to believe, that the mouth 
of this river is placed in the Ruffian charts much too far to 
the Well ward, are as follow: Firft, becaufe the accounts 
that are given of the navigation of the Frozen Sea from that 
river, round the North Eall point of Alia, to the gulf of 
Anadir, do not accord with the fuppofed diftance between 
thofe places. Secondly, becaufe the diftance over land, 
from the Kovyma to the Anadir, is reprefented by the 
early Ruffian travellers as a journey eaftly performed, and 
of no very extraordinary length. Thirdly, becaufe the 
coaft from the Shelatlkoi Nofs of Shalauroff* feems to trend 
direcftly South Eaft to the Eaft Cape. If this be fo, it will 
follow, that, as we were probably not more than i° to the 
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* See Chart in Coxe’s Account of Ruffian Difcoveries. 
Southward 
