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(66) CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF VOYAGES. [aPP. N° III. 



A. D. 



1736, the height of 77° 25', and westward to the Bay of 

 Taimourska. 



Rii. A. voyage from the Lena somewhat to the eastward of 



the Charaulack, was performed by Dmitri Laptiew, 



1737, E?}. Two ships equipped by the Hudson's Bay Company? 



for discoveries in Jlud son's Bay, and towards the 

 N. W., appear to have accomphshed httle or nothing. 



1738, Rk. The navigation from Archangel towards the east, by 



the Russians, commenced in 1734, was continued by 

 Lieutenants Mlyagin and Skuratow, and accomphsh- 

 ed as far as the Obe. 

 Ru. The voyage from the Obe to tlie Eniesi, was accom- 

 plished by Lieutenants Owzen and Koschelew. 



1739, Ru- Lieutenant Laptieif, on his second voyage in the Fro- 

 and zen Sea, sailed from the Lena, Avintered in the Indig- 



1740, hirsa, and proceeded the next spring to the Kovinia, 

 from whence, according to some authors, he crossed 

 the isthmus of the Tchuktchi to the river Anadir, 

 communicating with the sea of Kamtchatka *. 



1741, Ru. An expedition of two vessels, under Commodore Behr- 



ing and Captain Tschirikow, was dispatched from 

 Ochotsk in 1740, which, after wintering in Kam- 

 tchatka, proceeded towards America,- for the purpose 

 of making discoveries about its shores. The ships be- 

 ing separated on the passage, Behring discovered the 

 Continent in latitude 5<S° i28', and Tschirikow in 

 55° 36'. The former, after discovering several islands, 

 lost his ship on one of the Aleutians, called Behring s 

 Island, where he died. The latter returned, having 

 lost two boats and their crews on the American coast. 



1741, En. Some part of the Welcome, in Hudson's Bay, examined 

 and by Christopher IMiddleton and William Moor, with 



1742. two vessels, after having wintered in Churchill River. 

 The object of the voyage was the discovery of a 

 N. W. passage. 



1743^ A reward of L. 20,000 offered by Parliament, for the dis- 

 covery of a N. W. passage, by the way of Hudson's 

 Bay, (18th Geo. II. c. 17.) 



• The combined result of these Russian navigations in the Froaen Sea, ie briefly 

 traced in chap. I. § 2. of this volume. 



