Cape Se-rdze Kamen bore North, 52° Weft, thirteen leagues dif- '778.
tan t; the Southernmoft point o f land in fight South, 41“
Eaft ; the neareft part o f the coaft two leagues diftant ; and
our depth o f water twenty-two fathoms.
We had now fair weather and funihine; and as we ranged
along the coaft, at the diftance o f four miles, we faw feve-
ral o f the inhabitants, and fome o f their habitations, which
looked lik e little hillocks o f earth. In the evening we
pafiëd the Eaftern Cape, or the point above mentioned ; from
•wh ich the coaft changes its direilion, and trends South
Weft. It is the fame point o f land w hich we had palfed on
the n t h o f Auguft. T h e y who believed implicitly in Mr.
Stæhlin’s map, then thought it the Eaft point o f his ifland
Alafchka ; but w e had, by this time, fatisfied ourfelves, that
it is no other than the Eaftern promontory o f Alia ; and probably
the proper T/chukotJkoi No/s, though the promontory, to
w hich Beering gave that name, is farther to the South
Weft.
T h o u gh Mr. Muller, in his map o f the Ruffian Difcoveries,
places the Tfchukotlkoi Nofs nearly in 750 o f latitude, and
extends it fomewhat to the Eaftward o f this Cape, it appears
to me, that he had no good authority for fo doing. Indeed
his own accounts, or rather Defhneff’s * , o f the diftance between
the Nofs, and the river Anadir, cannot be reconciled
with this very Northerly pofition. But as I hope to vifit
thefe parts again, I ihall leave the difcuffion o f this point
till then. In the mean time, I muft conclude, as Beering
did before me, that this is the mod Eaftern point o f Afia.
* Avec le vent le plus favorable, on peut aller par mer de cette pointe (des
Tfchuktfchis), jufqu’à l ’Anadir en troisTois 24 heures ; & par terre le chemin ne
peut guère être plus long. Muller, p. 13.