3ao» APPENDIX L. 



N° IX. 



Foyage of Lieutenant Synd to the North Eaji of Siberia — 

 He difcovers a clufler of (/lands, and a projnontory,, 

 which be fuppofes to belong to the continent 0/ America,, 

 lying near the coafl of the Tfchutfki. 



TN 1764 lieutenant Synd failed from Ochotsk, upon a 

 ■^ voyage of difcovery towards the continent of America. 

 He was ordered to take a different courfe from that held 

 by the late Ruffian velTels, which lay due Eafi: from the 

 coaft of Kamtchatka. As he fleered therefore his courfe 

 more to the North Eall than any of the preceding navi- 

 gators^ and as it appears from all the voyages related in 

 the firft part of this work *, that the vicinity of America 

 is to be fought for in that quarter alone, any accurate 

 account of this expedition would not fail of being highly 

 interefting. It is therefore a great mortification to me, 

 that, while I raife the reader's curiofity, I am not able 

 fully to fatisfy it. The following intelligence concern- 

 ing this voyage is all which I was able to procure. It is 

 accompanied with an authentic chart. 



* See p. 27. 



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