Series 12.02: Copy of a letter received by Thomas Thynne, Lord Weymouth, Secretary of State, from Sir James Harris, British Ambassador at the Court of Russia in St Petersburg, 29 October, 9 November 1779 - No. 0002

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Promontory of the North East extremity of Asia; that however they did not proceed farther North, but returned by the same Track they went, and after again touching at the Aleutensis [also spelt Aleutian] steered Southward. 

On receiving this Information, it immediately suggested itself to me that it might be Capttaine Cook, and it is from the probability of this conjecture that I trouble Your Lordship with this Intelligence. I am &c.

James Harris.

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