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William Coxe
Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America
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Table of Contents
PREFACE.
CATALOGUE OF BOOKS QUOTED IN THIS WORK
Explanation of some Russian words made use of in the following work.
Table of Russian Weights, Measures of Length, and Value of Money.
WEIGHT.
MEASURES OF LENGTH.
VALUE OF RUSSIAN MONEY.
ERRATA.
ADVERTISEMENT.
List of the Charts, and Directions for placing them.
PART I.
CONTAINING
I. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING KAMTCHATKA,
AND
II. ACCOUNT OF THE NEW DISCOVERIES MADE BY THE RUSSIANS.
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS
CONCERNING
KAMTCHATKA, &c.
CHAP. I.
Discovery and Conquest of
Kamtchatka—
Present state of that Peninsula—Population—Tribute—Productions, &c.
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CHAP. II.
General idea of the commerce carried on to the New Discovered Islands.—Equipment of the vessels.—Risks of the trade, profits, &c.
CHAP. III.
Furs and skins procured from
Kamtchatka
and the New Discovered Islands.
ACCOUNT
OF THE
NEW DISCOVERIES
MADE BY THE
RUSSIANS
IN THE EASTERN OCEAN,
BETWEEN KAMTCHATKA AND AMERICA.
CHAP. I.
Commencement and progress of the
Russian
Discoveries in the sea of
Kamtchatka—
General division of the New Discovered Islands.
CHAP. II.
Voyages in 1745.
—
First discovery of the
Aleütian Isles
by
Michael Nevodtsikoff.
CHAP. III.
Successive voyages, from
1747 to 1753,
to
Beering's
and
Copper Island,
and to the
Aleütian Isles.—
Some account of the inhabitants.
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CHAP. IV.
Voyages from 1753 to 1756.
Some of the further
Aleütian
or
Fox Islands
touched at by
Serebranikoff's
vessel.—Some account of the Natives.
CHAP. V.
Voyages from 1756 to 1758.
CHAP. VI.
Voyages in 1758, 1759, and 1760—to the
Fox Islands—
in the
St. Vladimir,
fitted out by
Trapesnikoff—
and in the
Gabriel,
by
Betshevin
—The latter under the command of
Pushkareff
sails to
Alaksu
or
Alachskak,
one of the remotest Eastern Islands hitherto visited—Some account of its inhabitants, and productions, which latter are different from those of the more Western Islands.
CHAP. VII.
Voyage of
Andrean Tolstyk
in the
St. Andrean
and
Natalia—
Discovery of some New Islands called
Andreanoffskye Ostrova—
Description of six of those Islands.
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