New Nordic Contributions to the science and culture

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New Nordic Contributions to the Physical and Geographic Description of the Earth, Ethnic Groups, Natural History and Economy

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The first volume contains a description of the Tungusian buffalo; a comparison of the plague found in Sweden, Russia and Siberia; reports from Tibet; a description of the Altai Mountains from the Chinese; a geographic description of the Anadyr River; a description of the Chukotka Penninsula; a report of the voyage of Krenitsin and Levachev from Kamchatka to Alaska in 1768-69; information on discoveries in the North Pacific; and excerpts from letters from Siberia.

The second volume contains two journals from Lorenz Lange's caravan trips to Beijing in 1727, 1728, and 1736; descriptions of Bering Island and so-called Copper Island; a report of the voyage of D. Bragin to the Aleutian Islands in 1772-76; and an excerpt from the journal of I. Golovev's journey to Alaska in 1770-75.

The third volume contains information on D. G. Messerschmidt's seven-year journey in Siberia; Don F. A. Maurelle's journal from his voyage along the American coast north of California; an excerpt from Saikov''s journal of his voyage to America in 1772-78; and a description of the cremation ceremony for a Kalmyk high priest.

The fourth volume contains an excerpt from the travel narrative of a cossack named Gotnik, who visited Chukotka and the coast of America in 1779; a new description of the Kuril Islands; a report on the earthquake in Okhotsk in 1781; reports from the areas surrounding Okhotsk; a report of E. L. Patrin's journey to the Altai Mountains in 1781; a description of the Nerchinsk mines and foundries in eastern Siberia; and information on the geography and history of Tibet.

The fifth volume contains an essay by G.F. Müller about voyages to the North Arctic Ocean since 1742; an exerpt from Tschitschagof's diary of his second voyage to the North Arctic Ocean in 1761; G.W. Steller's diary about his journey with V. Bering from Kamchatka to America in the year 1741; a report on unknown letters engraved in stones and found in Siberia; a report on a new mine outside of the Kolywan district; and information about fossils and minerals from Siberia and Kamchatka.

The sixth volume contains the second part of Steller's diary of his voyage to America; a description of P.I. Schangin's mineralogical-botanical voyage into the Altai Mountains in 1786; a report about an examination of a special luminescent stone in the Baikal region; and a travel narrative of Shelekhov's voyage from Okhotsk to America in the years between 1783 and 1789.

The seventh volume contains a narrative of Pallas's trip to the Caucasus in 1781, reports from the Lakhovskie Islands in the Arctic Ocean, and Sievers letters from Siberia.