and alfo rein- deers and wild dogs., To thefe proofs
drawn from natural hiftory, we muft add the reports o f
a mountainous country covered with forefts, and of a
great promontory called Atachtak, lying ftill more to the
N. E. which were prevalent among the inhabitants o f
Alakfu and Kadyak-
Although thefe circumftances have been already meis-
tioned yet I have thought proper to recapitulate then»
here, in order to lay before the reader in one point o f
view the feveral proofs advanced by the anonymous author,
which feem to fhew, that the Fox Iflands are fituated
near America. Many o f them afford,, beyond a doubt,,
evident figns of a lefs open fea ; and give certain marks
of a nearer approach towards the oppofite continents
But how far that diftanee may he fuppofed, mull be
left to the judgment of the reader; and remains to he
afcertained by fubfequent navigators. All that we know for
certain, is, that as far as any Ruffian veffels have hitherto*
failed, a chain of illands has been difcovered lying E. or
N. E. by E. from Kamtchatka, and ftretching towards
America. Part of this chain has only been touched at ;
the reft is. unknown; and all beyond is uncertainty
and conjecture.
* See p. 68 and'65— 116.— 118— 170.
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N° VII.
Of the tffcbulsM— Reports of the vicinity of America to
their coaft,firJl propagated by them, feem to be confirmed
by late accounts from thofe parts.
* I 'H E Tfcliutfki, it is well known, inhabit the NorthTlieTfcl"ltik!-
*“ ■ Eaftern part of Siberia; their country is a fmall
trad of land, bounded on the North by the Frozen Sea,
on the Eaft by the Eaftern Ocean; on the South it borders
Upon river Anadyr, and on that of Kovyma to the Weft.
The N. E. cape of this country is called Tfchukotfkoi-
Nofs, or the promontory of the Tfchutfki. Its inhabitants
are the only people of Siberia who have not yet been
fubdued by the Ruffians-
The anonymous author agrees with Mr. Muller in'
fnppofing, that America advances to within'a fmall dif-
tance of the coaft of theTfchutski; which he fays “ is
confirmed by the lateft accounts procured from thefe
parts.”
The firft intelligence concerning the fuppofed vicinity
between Afia and America was derived from the reports
of