(o8) CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF VOYAGES. [aPP. N° III. 



A. D. 



Captain Wilder, in the brig Diligence, havino^ sailed 

 to latitude 69° 11' with such a design. This vessel 

 was fitted out by means of the subscriptions of some 

 gentlemen of Virginia. 

 1773, En. In a voyage towards the North Pole, with two vessels 

 under the charge of Co:nstantine John Phipps and 

 Skeffington Lutwidge, the latitude of 80° 48' was 

 reached, and some interesting surveys and observa- 

 tions made, but no discoveries. 



1775, *S^. A voyage for. discovery along the west side of North 



America, made, by order of the Viceroy of Mexico, 

 by Bruno Heceta and others ; they reached the lati- 

 tude of 57° 18' N. 



1776, The reward of =£'20,000 for the discovery of a N. W. pas- 



sage extended, not by the vvay of Hudson's Bay and in 

 merchant ships only, but to any ships, even those of 

 his Majesty, which, by a former act, were excluded, and 

 in any northern direction between the Atlantic and 

 Pacific Oceans : Also, an award of ^£'5000 to any ship 

 that should approach within one degree of the North 

 Pole. (16th Geo. III. cap. 6.) 



1776, En. Richard Pickei'sgill, in the brig Lion, was sent out to 



Baffin's Bay for the protection of the whale-fishers, 

 and for the examination of the coasts. He only 

 reached the latitude of 68° 10', and then returned 

 without having accomplished almost any thing. 



1777, En. The same vessel was again equipped, under the com- 



mand of Lieutenant Walter Young, who was ordered 

 to examine Baffin's Bay, and attempt to find a N. W. 

 passage, with a view, it seems, of meeting Captain 

 Cook, who was expected about the same time to be 

 trying to reverse the same track. But Young, hav- 

 ing readied to the height of 72° 42', though so early 

 as tlie month of June, tacked, and soon after returned 

 home. 

 1776 En. The adventurous navigator James Cook, with two 

 to ships under his direction, being appointed to make 



1778, discoveries towards the reversing of a N. W. pas- 

 sage, passed Behring's Strait on his third voyage, in 

 the summer of 1778, and discovered or named Cape 

 Prince of Wales, Point Mulgrcwe, Icy Cape, Cape 

 Lisburne, Cape North, &c. and advanced to the nortli- 



