APP. :N° III.] CHRONOLOGIGAL LIST OF VOYAGES. (69) 



A. D. 



ward as high as latitude 70° 44' N. ; which limit being 

 unable to pass, he returned to the southward to spend 

 the winter. In one ot the Sandwich Islands, Owhy, 

 hee, this celebrated character lost his life. 



1779, En. After the death of Captain Cook, a second examination 

 of the icy sea, to the northward of Behring's Strait, 

 was undertaken by Charles Clerke, in which the same 

 two ships readied the latitude of 70' 33', beyond 

 which they were unable to advance on account of ice. 



1786 Da. An expedition under Captain Lowenorn and Lieutenant 

 and Egede, was sent out from Copenhagen for the reco- 



1787. very of lost Greenland. Several attempts were made 



to reach the coast about the parallel of 65°, without 

 being able to approach nearer than about 50 miles 

 on account of ice ; Lowenorn returned to Denmark 

 in July, and Egede to Iceland to refit. The latter 

 made another attempt in the month of August, when 

 he reached within 10 miles of the land, and then pro- 

 ceeded to Iceland, where he wintered. The next 

 year, Egede, with two small vessels, one commanded 

 by Lieutenant Rothe, made other trials to approach 

 the Greenland coast, but ^^ith less success than before, 

 never being able to reach the land within 30 miles. 



1787 Ru. Joseph Billings, an Englishman, was employed in the 

 to service of Russia for researches about Behring's Strait 



1791. and the Tchutkchi Promontory. In 1787, he made 



a short voyage from the Kovima into the Icy Sea; 

 in 1790, he sailed from Kamtchatka to the Alutian 

 Islands ; and from thence, the same year, he sailed 

 to the Bay of St Laurence, on the south side of Cape 

 East, Behring's Strait, where he landed, and traced the 

 coasts to the northward as far as Klutshenie Bay, the 

 eastern side of which is formed by Cape North. From 

 this place he crossed the country towards the west, and 

 arrived at the Kovima in 1791. 



1789, E7i. Alexander Mackenzie accomplished a river naviga- 

 tion from Fort Chepewyan, on the south side of the 

 Lake of the Hills, as far as latitude 69° 14', where he 

 was evidently at the borders of the Hyperborean Sea, or 

 near the mouth of a river communicating with it. 

 The river he descended is now named Mackenzie's 

 Rive)'. 



