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A. D. 



1722, En. A voyage from Churchill River, Hudson's Bay, was 



undertaken by John Scroggs, in search of Knight. 

 He examined several parts of the bay without success. 

 He does not appear, indeed, to have paid much atten- 

 tion to the original object of the voyage. 



1723, Da. A ship sent out by the Bergen Greenland Company, 



for reconnoitring Davis"" Strait, was lost, and all hands 

 it is supposed perished. 



1724 Da. Two ships fitted out by the Bergen Company for dis- 

 covery, one for exploring the west side of Davis' 

 Strait, in the 67th parallel, and the other for exami- 

 ning the east coast of Greenland, effected nothing. 



Ru. About this time, several voyages and journeys were 



made by the Russians, on and about the Frozen Sea, 

 in search of northern lands, in which several islands 

 were discovered. 



1728, Ru. Captain Vitus Behuing was employed in a voyage' 



from Kamtchatka, for discoveries towai'ds the north, 

 and for ascertaining whether Asia and America were 

 continuous. He sailed as high as 67° 18' N. latitude, 

 having passed the place now called Beliring^s Strait. 



1729, RU' Behring sailed on his second voyage from Kamtchatka, 



in search oP land towards the east. He did not, how- 

 ever, leave the land above 200 versts, and discovered 

 nothing. 



Da. Lieutenant Richard made an unsuccessful attempt to 



reach the east coast of Greenland, in the parallel of 

 Iceland. 



1730, Ru. A vessel was dispatched under the orders of the Sur- 

 or veyor Gwosdew, and Tryphon Krupischew, a Kossak 



1731, officer, for the purpose of inviting the Tchuktchi to 

 pay tribute ; in this voyage the West Coast of America^ 

 in the 66th parallel, was discovered. 



1734, Ru. The navigation from Archangel to the Avest coast of 

 and the peninsula separating the Gulfs of Kama and Obe, 



1735. was accomplished by Lieutenant Morovieff. 



1735, Ru. Lieutenant Lassenius sailed from the Lena towards 

 the east, and wintered in the river Charaulack, where 

 46 out of 52 persons, composing his crew, died of the 

 scurvy. 



1735, Ru. Lieutenant Prontschitscheff sailed from the Lena west- 

 and ward, and after wintering in the Olenec, proceeded to 



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