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Excerpt from Voyages From Asia to America, for Completing the Discoveries of the North West Coast of America: To Which Is Prefixed, a Summary of the Voyages Made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in Search of a North East Passage; Serving as an Explanation of a Map of the Russian Discoveries, Published by the Academy of Sciences at Petersburgh
Neck of Land, which connects the two Continents of Northern and Southern America together but the Execution of this Defign mull: meet' Willl infurmouhtable'obfiacles, from a Want of. N umbers fut ficient to accomplith fo_vafi'jafi well as Provifions to fubfift them durmg' their Labours, was it pofiible to bring thither an adequate Number of hands'; not to mention that the Unhealthinefs of the Climate, and the Fatigue joined with it, would be {0 deflruétive to the People employed, that perhaps the whole Maritime Power of Europe Would be fcarcely able to furnilh out Men requifite for this Purpofe, and fupplythc continual Waite of human Lives.
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