AmtdtrsJiy Ifle-sr or Ifles o f Anadyr,,
fo called by Mr. Stseblin, and
after him by Buffon* p. 25. 284
— 288.
Anioor river, called by 'the Man-
(hurs Sakalin-Ula ; and by the
Mongols^ Karamuran, or the
Black River.
Andrianrjfskie JJlands, their fituation
doubtful, 25. Deferiptipn of, 74,
75. Muft not be blended with
the Fox Iflands, 74. Account of
the inhabitants, 77.' Other iflands
beyond them to the Eaft, ibid.
Pofition of the Andreanoffskie-
lflands, 289.
Arachulla, fuppofed by the Chinefe
a wicked fpirit of the air, 22.9.
Archangel, voyages from thence to
the Yenisei, 3.05.
Artie, or lee Foxes, defeription of,:
AJia, the fir ft report of its vicinity
to America, learned from the
Tfchptlki, 293.
A ta c h ta k , a great promontory N. E.
ofAlakfu, 118.
Ataku, one of the Aleutian Iflands,
45?
- Atchu, one of the Andreanoffsky
Iflands, defeription of, 76.
A tc h u , Aichaky, A ta c h , Gore loi, or
Burnt Ijland, one of the Fox
Iflands, 61.
Atlajfoff (Volodimir), takes poffeffion
of the river Kamtchatka, 4,
Atrar, a town of Little Bucharia,
Att, one o f the Aleutian Ifles, 30*
Ayagh, or Kayachu, one of the Andreanoffsky
Iflands, 72. Defeription
of,, 75-
|B
Baccboff . See Novikoff.
Baranei Ka?nen, or S beefs Rock, description
of, 328.
Bear Iflands. See Medvioedkie Of-
trova.
Beering% his voyage made at the expence
of the crown, 8. His
voyage . (with Tfehirikoff) in
fearch o f a junction between Afia
and America, in 1728 and, 1729,
unfuccefsful, 20. Shipwrecked,
. ibid, and death on an ifland called
after his name, 21. See Dif-
c overt es, Steller; fee alio p. 323.-
Beering’s Ijland, the winter-flation
o f all the (hips failing- (or the
new-difeovered iflands, 52^
Belayefffharion), treats.the inhabitants
of-the Aleutian Ifland? in an
hoftile manner; in which, he is
under-hand abetted by Tfiuproff,
34* ;
Bolcheretjk, a diftri# o f Kamtchat-
ka, 5. See Kamtchatkoi.OJlrogs.
Bolkojky (prince), appointed way-
wode o f Siberia, 190. See Ter
. rnac.
Boris and Glebb. See Trapefmkojf.
Bucharia (Little), all fubject to
Chi«?.. 333. ■
Buache (Mr.). See Longitude.
Burgoltei, a mountain in the valley
o f Kiachta, 214.
Burnt Ijland. See. Atchu,
Buttons (of different colours), ufed
as marks of diftinclion among the
Chinefe, 218.
C.
Calumet of peace, a fymbol of friend-
fhip peculiar to America, 280.
Cambi,
Cambi, the fécond Chinefe emperor
of the Manlhur race, 197. Expels
the Ruffians from his dominions,
for their riot's and druh-
kennèfs, 205.
Camphor wood (the true), drove by
the fea on Copper Ifland, 107.
Caravans (Ruffian), allowed to trade
' to Pekin, 2,03. Difccmtinued,
and why, 209. See Ritffta.
Chatanga, the cape between that
river and. the Piafida never yet
doubled, 309— -313.
Chinefe, origin o f the difputes between
them and the Ruffians, 197.
Hoftilities commenced between
them, 198. Treaty o f Nerfhinlk
concluded, 200. Beginning of
the commerce between the two
nations, 202. Their trade with
the Ruffians, 208, &e. Reckon
it a mark of difrepefl to uncover
th e head to a fbperior, 228.
Their fuperftitiori in regard to
fires, 229. Mahner of their pronouncing
foreign expreffions, 2 32.
No fpecie but bullion current
among them, 233. Advantage
of the Chinefe trade to Ruffia,
240. • •
Cholodilojf. Voyage- of a veffel fitted
obt by hint, 48.
Cbitfho, (Or the Fire-god), a Chinefe
idol, 226. See Chinefe,
Copper Ijland, why fo called, 2 1 .10 7 .
- 232. Pfbbable that all the hillocks
in that 'country have formerly
been. vulcanbes, ibid. Sub-
jeft to frequent earth-quakes, arid
abound in- fuipbur, 2.ÇS
Cyprian (firft archbiffiop of Siberia),
' colleftS the archives of the Siberian
hiftory, 19 2.
D.
Dauriin (a native Tfchutlki), employed
by Plenifner to examine
the iflands to the Eaff of Siberia,
293. The intelligence he brought
back, ibid,
Delifle, miftaken concerning the
Weftern coafl of America, 26-
Dejhneff, his voyage, 313. 1 Ex-
traffs from his papers, 315, 316.
His defeription of the'great promontory
o f the Tfchutlki, 317.
Ankudinoff’s veffel wrecked on
that ■ promontory, ibid. Delhneff
builds Anadirfkoi-Oftrog on the
river Anadyr, 318. Difpute between
him and Soliverftoff, concerning
the dilcovery of the Kor-
ga, 319, 320. No navigator
fince-Delhneff pretends to have
paffed round the N .E . extremity
of Afia, 322.
Vifcoveries. The profecution of
thofe begun by Beering moftly
carried on by individuals, 8. The
veffels equipped- for thofe difeo-
Veries deferibed, ibid. Expellees
attending them, 9. Profits .of
the trade ro the new-difeovered
iflands very confiderable, io-
Lift of the principal charts of the
Ruffian difeoveries hitherto pub-
lilhed, 281.
Bogs, ufed for drawing: carriages,
- 2.47.
Drufinin (Alexei), wrecked at Beering’s
Ifland, 4<S. His vbyage to
the Fox Iflands, 80—-88. Winters
at Unalaffika, 82. All the
crew, except four Ruffians, vi'z.
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