A P P E N D I X I.
Alla, notwithflanding all the attempts which have been
made to accomplilh this paffage, as well from f Kamtchatka
as from the Frozen Ocean.
The. following narrative of a late voyage performed
by one ShalaurofF, from the Lena towards Tfchukotfkoi-
Nofs, will fhew the great impediments which obftrudt a
coafting navigation in the Frozen Sea, eyen at the moft
favourable feafon of the year.
3* *3
ShalaurofF, haying conftrufted a fliitik at his own yTa8'ro°f
expence, went down the Lena in 1761. He was- accompanied
by an exiled midlhipman, whom he had
found at Yakutlk, and to whom we are indebted fob
itrefs upon fuch vague and uncertain reports. The paffage is as follows':
“ Es find fo gar Spuren vorhanden, dafs ein Kerl mit einem, Schiffleia,
“ das nichtvicl groeffer, als ein Schifferkahn, gevefen, vein Kolyma bis
cc Tfchukotfkoi-Nofs vorbey, und bis nach Kamtfchatka gekommenfey.”
Gmelin Reife,' II. p-437. Mem. et QfcjF. Geog. &c. p .T d i , \
* Beering, in his voyage?firdpt Kaipichatka,1 in 1628-, towards Tfebu-
kotskoi-Nofs, failed along!,thej tcoaftjlof the Tfchu&ki as ■ high as lat.
67° 18', and. obferving the coaft.take/a;: Wefterly direction, he too haftily
concluded, that he had paffed the North Eaftern extremity. Apprehen-
five, if he had attempted to proceed;, o f being locked in by the ice, he returned
to Kamtchatka. I f he had fallowed the flio re, he would have
found,'that what he took for the Northern ocean was nothing more
than a deep bay : and that the coaft of the Tfchutski, which he confidered
as turning uniformly to the Weft, took again ,a'Northerly direction.
-S. R. G. III. p. 117.
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