Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America / To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China

by William Coxe

In order to give the reader some notion of that vast tract of country, over which the merchandize is frequently transported by land carriage, a list of the distances is here subjoined.

From	Petersburg to Moscow	734	versts.
	Moscow to Tobolsk	right
	Tobolsk to Irkutsk	right
	Irkutsk to Kiachta	471
			6508
From	Irbit to Tobolsk	420
From	Irkutsk to Nershinsk	1129
	Nershinsk to Zuruchaitu	370
From	Ochotsk to Yakutsk	927
	Yakutsk to Irkutsk	2433
From	Selenginsk to Zuruchaitu	850
	Zuruchaitu to Pekin	1588
	Kiachta to Pekin	1532

The Chinese transport their goods to Kiachta chiefly upon camels. It is four or five days journey from Pekin to the wall of China, and forty-six from thence across the Mongol desert to Kiachta[120].

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PART III.
APPENDIX I. & II.
CONTAINING
SUPPLEMENTARY ACCOUNTS
OF THE
RUSSIAN DISCOVERIES, &c. &c.

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APPENDIX I.
Extract from the journal of a voyage made by Captain Krenitzin and Lieutenant Levasheff to the Fox Islands, in 1768, 1769, by order of the Empress of Russia—they sail from Kamtchatka—arrive at Beering's and Copper Islands—reach the Fox Islands—Krenitzin winters at Alaxa—Levasheff upon Unalashka—productions of Unalashka—description of the inhabitants of the Fox Islands—their manners and customs, &c.