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A VOYAGE TO 
i77 8 - was 66° 37', Cape Serdze Kamen bore North, 52 0 Weft, 
thirteen leagues diftant; the Southernmoft point of land 
in fight South, 41 0 Eaft; the neareft part of the coafl two 
leagues diftant; and our depth of water twenty-two fa¬ 
thoms. 
We had now fair weather and furifhine; and as we ranged 
along the coaft, at the diftance of four miles, we faw feve- 
ral of the inhabitants, and fome of their habitations, which 
looked like little hillocks of earth. In the evening we 
pafled the Raftern Cape , or the point above mentioned; 
from which the coaft changes its direction, and trends South 
Weft. It is the fame point of land which w'e had pafted on 
the nth of Auguft. They who believed implicitly in Mr. 
Stoehlin’s map, then thought it the Eaft point of his ifland 
Alafchka; but we had, by this time, fatisfied ourfelves, 
that it is no other than the Eaftern promontory of Alia; 
and probably the proper Tfchukotfkoi Nofs , though the pro¬ 
montory, to which Beering gave that name, is farther to 
the South Weft. 
Though Mr. Muller, in his map of the Ruffian Difcove- 
ries, places the Tfchukotlkoi Nofs nearly in 75 0 of latitude, 
and extends it fomewhat to the Eaftward of this Cape, it 
appears to me, that he had no good authority for fo doing. 
Indeed his own accounts, or rather DefhnefPs *, of the dif¬ 
tance between the Nofs, and the river Anadir, cannot be 
reconciled with this very Northerly polition. But as I hope 
to vilit thefe parts again, I lhall leave the difcuffion of this 
point till then. In the mean time, I muft conclude, as 
* Avec le vent le phis favorable, on peut aller par mer de cette pointe (des 
Tfchuktfchis), jufqu’a 1’Anadir en trois fois 24 heures; & par terre le chemin ne peut 
guere etre plus long.*—Muller, p. 13. 
Beering 
