THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
proof, that the two countries were ufually joined together 
by the ice. 
The account given by Mr. Muller, of one of the expedi¬ 
tions undertaken to difcover a fuppofed ifland in the Frozen 
Sea, is ftill more remarkable. 44 In the year 1714, a new 
“ expedition was prepared from Jakutzk, for the fame 
44 place, under the command of Alexei Markoff, who was 
44 to fail from the mouth of the Jana; and if the Schitiki 
44 were not fit for fea voyages, he was to conflruft, at a pro- 
44 per place, veffels fit for profecuting the difcoveries with- 
46 out danger. 
44 On his arrival at Uft-janfkoe Simovie, the port at which 
44 he was to embark, he fent an account, dated February 2, 
44 1715, to the Chancery of Jakutzk, mentioning that it 
44 was impoftible to navigate the fea, as it was continually 
44 frozen, both in fummer and winter; and that, confe- 
44 quently, the intended expedition was no otherwife to be 
44 carried on, but with fledges drawn by dogs. In this man- 
44 ner he accordingly fet out, with nine perfons, on the 
44 10th of March the fame year, and returned on the 3d of 
44 April, to Uft-janfkoe Simovie. The account of his jour- 
44 ney is as follows : that he went feven days, as faft as 
44 his dogs could draw him (which, in good ways and wea- 
44 ther, is eighty or a hundred werfts in a day) directly to- 
44 ward the North, upon the ice, without difcovering any 
44 ifland : that it had not been poflible for him to proceed 
44 any farther, the ice riling there in the fea like mountains: 
44 that he had climbed to the top of fome of them, whence 
44 he was able to fee to a great diftance round about him, 
44 but could difcern no appearance of land: and that, at lafl, 
44 wanting food for his dogs, many of them died, which 
44 obliged him to return.” 
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