APP. N*' 111.] CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF VOYAGES. (68) 



A. D. 



1647, Ru. A second trading voyage, with four kotches, from the 



Kovima towards the E., was attempted under the 

 direction of the Kossak, Semoen Deschnew or Desh- 

 neff* : this altogether failed. 



1648, Ru. Seven kotches, from the Kovima, &c, in one of which Se- 



moen Deschrew again sailed, were dispatched to- 

 wards the east. Six, if not all of these vessels, appear to 

 have been wrecked ; but one of them, commanded by 

 Deschnew, previously accomplished the passage, it is 

 supposed, round the great promontory of the Tchukt- 

 chi *, to the east side of Kamtcliatka^ and was lost 

 near the River Olutora or Aliutori. 



1652, Da. An expedition of two ships under Captain Danell, was 

 sent out for the discovery of the east side of Green- 

 land. The east coast at intervals, was seen from lati- 

 tude QiS" 30' to Cape Farewell : but no landing was 

 effected. 



165t}, Da. A second examination by Danell was undertaken. 

 The east coast was ao-ain seen, but onlv at a distance, 

 from Herjolfsness, latitude 64°, to Cape Farewell. 



Da. Three ships, sent out for the discovery of a N. E. pas- 

 sage, passed the Weigatz, but discovered nothing. 



1654, Du. Gale Hamkens Land., on the east coast of Greenland, 



intimated, by the Dutch charts, as having been dis- 

 covered by a Greenland trader of the same name. 



1655, Du. The Land, of Edain, east side of Greenland, latitude 



78°, marked in the Dutch charts as having been dis- 

 covered. 



1660, Po. David Melguer, said to have reversed the N. E. pas- 

 sage. A pretended voyage. 



1668, E7i. A voyage into Hudson's Bay, and for discovery to- 

 wards the N. W., was performed by Captain Zac- 

 charia'i Gillam, accompanied by M. de Grosseliez, a 

 Frenchman, by whom the practicability of making an 

 important settlement in this quarter had been suggest- 

 ed. Gillam wintered in Hudson's Bay, and built a 

 small stone fort. The apparent advantages to be de- 

 rived from settlemeats, founded on the examinations 



• Captain Barney is of opinion, that this voyage might have been accomplished 

 without doubling the giejt promontory, by taking the vessel in pieces, a practice not 

 uncommon with the Russians, and carrying it over a narrow neck of land between 

 the Kovima and the Anadir. 



