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An account of a geographical and astronomical expedition to the northern parts of Russia, : for ascertaining the degrees of latitude and longitude of the mouth of the river Kovima; of the whole coast of the Tshutski, to East Cape; and of the islands in the eastern ocean, stretching to the American coast. Performed, by command of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second, empress of all the Russias, by Commodore Joseph Billings, in the years 1785, &c. to 1794.

Item Details

Creator: Sauer, Martin, Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823
Subjects: Aleut Language, Aleuts, Billings, Joseph, 1761-1806, Eskimos, Imprint 1802, Indian linguistics, Indigenous peoples, Koniagmiut dialect
Collections: Russian Rare Books and Maps of Alaska/Siberia
Contributor: John Carter Brown Library
Date: 1802
Referring Collections: jcbindigenous, americana

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