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Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America.
London: J. Nichols, for T. Cadell, 1780
Physical Description: xxii, 344, [16] p., [5] folded leaves leaves of plates : ill., 4 maps ; 30 cm. (4to)
Call number: D780/ C879a 1-SIZE 2 cop.
Accession number: 03906 (cop.1) ; 30495 (cop.2)
Notes: “Specimen of the Aleutian Language" (Appendix I, No. X, p. 303) lists a dozen nouns and the numerals 1-10 with Aleutian and English in parallel columns, followed by this note: “It is very remarkable, that none of these words bear the least resemblance to those of the same signification, which are found in the different dialects spoken by the Koriaks, Kamtchadals, and the inhabitants of the Kuril Islands”.
JCB has 2 copies. Copy 2 is bound with William Coxe, A comparative view of the Russian discoveries with those made by Captains Cooke and Clerke, London, 1787.
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Languages: Aleut / Pacific Gulf Yupik
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Arctic
