APPENDIX I. 



The navigation from the Lena to Kamtchatka now re-'i^"™''I="' 



tJ the Kuliians tc 



mains to be confideretl. If we may believe fome authors, r^'i?.'"''" 



. Kanitcliaika. 



this 



thence he infers that they mull have doubled the above-mentioned Cape 

 which extends to the North of the Piafida, and have got at Itatl as far 

 Eaft as the mouth of the Olcnek. His words are L'lUuftre Socicte Roy- 

 ale, fous I'an 1675, rapporte ce voyage et dit, que pen d'annees aupara- 

 vant une Societe demerchands d'Amfterdam avoit fait une tentative pour 

 chercher le paffage du Nord Ell, et equippa deuxvaifleaux les quels etant 

 pafle au feptante neuf ou huitanticmc degre de latitude, avoient poufle fe- 

 lon Wood, julqu' a trois centlieues a I'Ellde laNouvelle Zemble, Sec. Sec, 

 Upon this fadt he founds his proof that the navigation from Archangel 

 to the Lena has been performed. Par confequent cette partie de la rout^- 

 a ete faite. He rells the truth of this account on the authority of the 

 Philofophical Tranfadlions, and of Captain Wood, who failed upon a 

 voyage forthe difcovery of the North Eaft paflage in 1676. The latter, 

 in the relation of his voyage, enumerates feveral arguments which in- 

 duced him to believe the practicability of the North Eaft paflage. — 

 " The feventh argument," he fays, " was another narration, printed in 

 " the Tranfaftions, of two fliips of late that had attempted the paflage, 

 " failed 300 leagues to the Eal>ward of Nova Zemla, and had after profe- 

 " ciUed the voyage, had there not a dilTcrencearofe betwixt the undertakers 

 " and the Eaft-India company." We here find- that Captain \^'ood re- 

 fers to the Philofophical Tranfaftions for his authorirv. The narration 

 printed in the Tranfadtions, and which is -alluded to by both Captain 

 Wood and Mr. Engel, is to be foimd in Vol. IX. of the Philofophical 

 Ttanfadlions, p. 209, for December, 1674. It coniifts of- a very curious 

 " Narrative of fome obfervations made upon feveral voyages, under- 

 " taken to find a way for failing about the North to the Eafl-Indies ; 

 **• together with inflrudfions given by the Dutch Eall-India Company 

 " for the difcovery of the famous land of JeflTo near Japan." Thefe in- 

 llrudtions were, in 1643, g'^'cn to Martin Geritfes Vrics, captain of the 

 Ihip Caftricum, " who let out to difcovcr the unknovvn E.UUrn cojft 

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