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



A. D. 



1789, Sp. Two corvettes, under the orders of Malaspina, were sent 

 to the N. W. of America, to search for a navigable 

 communication from the Pacific to the Atlantic, be- 

 tween the parallels of 53° and 60° N. 



1790 En. Charles Duncan sailed in one of the HudsoiVs Bay 

 to ships, with the view of being furnished with a small 



1792. vessel on his arrival out, for making investigations to- 



wards a N. W. passage ; but being disappointed, 

 both in the vessel and crew provided for him, he re- 

 turned to England without attempting any thing. 

 The following year he proceeded on the adventure to- 

 wards the N. W. in a small vessel fitted out of Lon- 

 don; wintered in Hudson's Bay, then made some slight 

 examination of Chesterfield's Inlet, and again return- 

 ed to a port in the Bay to winter. After these failures 

 or disappointments, nothing else by him was attempt- 

 ed. 



1791 En. Twovessels,underthecommandof George Vancouver, 

 to were sent out to the west coast of North America, part- 



1795. ly for receiving back some territories which had been 



seized by the Spaniards, and partly for discovery in 

 regard of a navigable communication from the Pacific 

 to the Atlantic, between the parallels of 30* and 60* 

 N. The whole of the west coast was accordingly traced 

 from latitude 30° to the head of Cook's Inlet, in about 

 61° 18'. In this laborious investigation, Vancouver 

 sailed almost 1000 miles in channels, in some places 

 very contracted, between ranges of islands and the 

 main. The non-existence of a passage through the 

 continent, Avithin the limits prescribed, was Avell es- 

 tablished. 



1805 Ru. Several islands to the northward of that part of Russia, 

 to included between the Jana and the Kovima, were dis- 



1809- covered in different brief northern expeditions, among 



which was an extensive tract of country, now called 

 Nezt) Siberia. 



1815 Ru. Lieutenant Kotzebue, in a small vessel called the Ru- 

 to rick, was employed for making discoveries to the 



1818. northward of Behring's Strait on the side of America. 



He passed Behring's Strait in 1816, and after some 

 little time spent in research, returned to the south- 

 ward to winter. The next summer, Kotzebue pro- 

 ceeded again towards the north ; but having met vnih 



