Since then the longitude between Fero and PeterF-
burgh is acknowledged to be 48°— that between Peterf-
burgh and Yak utile 99° 2 i':— and,as the diftance.in longitude
between Yakutlk and Bolchereflc cannot be materially
lefs than 270 3'. it follows, that the longitude o f
Bolcherefk from Fero cannot be much lefs than 174° 24k
Where then fhall we find place for fo great an error aa
27 degrees* which* according to Mr. Engel, or even of
11°. which, according to Monf. Vaugondy, is imputed
to the Ruffian geographers, in fixing the longitude of
Kamtchatka ?
From the ifle of Fera
Longitude c f Yakutlk 147 °; Q
of Ochotlk x.60 7 0,
ofBolcherelk 174 13 a
of the Port of St. Peter and Paul 176 10 a
Longitude of As no aftrönomical obfervationshave been madefurthe.
extreme- 1 _ pans of Af« ther to the Eaft than the Port of St. Peter and Paul, it is
determined: by
the Suiiiank ^poffible to fix, with any degree of certainty, the longitude
of the North-Eaftern promontory of Afia. It appears
however from Beering’s and Synd’s coailing: voyages
towards Tfchukotlkoi Nofs, and from other expeditions
to the parts’’ by' land and fea, that the coafi of Afia in
lat. 64. ftretches at l'eaft 23° a 30. from the Port, or
to about 200° longitude from the I fie of Fero»
N° III.
Summary of the proofs tending, to Jhem, that Beering and
Tfchirikoff either reached America in 1741, or came
very near it»
H E coafi: which Beering reached* and called Cape
St. Elias, lay, according to his ellimation, in
58°. 28'. N. latitude, and in longitude 236°. from Fero:
the coafi: touched at by Tfchirikoff was fituated in lat.
56k long. 2 4i ^ -
SteUer, who accompanied Beering in his expedition Arguments mivanced
by
towards America* endeavours to prove, that they difco-ptr'1v1'rt'h°at
vered that continent by the following arguments t : The -p jjraKfr
. . " '' > " h ; Jïy.j’.-:!!}. f lAdifcoveredcoafts
were, bold,. preientmg continued chains of high.America,
mountains, lome of which were fo. elevated, that their
tops were- covered .with fnow* their fides were cloathed
• The r-eader will find the narrative o f this voyagé made by Beering
and Tfchirikoff in Mailer’s, account o f the Ruffian ' Difcoveries,
S. R. G,. III. ,193, &c.
-jr See Kraffiininikoff’s account of Kamtchatka, Chap. X. French
Tranflation; Chap.. IV. Engliffi tranflation..