26(5 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



of Cook in his second and third voyage, wlio has 

 repeatedly navigated the South Pohir Ocean, and 

 tlie sea to the north of Beering's Strait, James 

 Burney, is inclined to suppose that Asia and 

 America are united, and parts of one and the same 

 continent. * 



We confess that Captain Burney has not gained 

 us over to his opinion. In his Chronological His- 

 tory of North-Eastern Voyages, we find the histori- 

 cal testimonies that bear upon this question treated 

 with the greatest freedom, and refer to it with en- 

 tire confidence. 



That Samoen Deschnew, in his celebrated 

 vovao-e from the Colima or Kovima, to the Anadyr, 

 in 1(jI8, did not, in reality, double the north-east 

 cape (Schelatzkey, or Swoetoy-noss, the great cape 

 of the Tschukutskoi,) but crossed it by land, 

 over a narrow isthmus, as was subsequently done 

 by Staras Staduchin, appears to us an arbitrary iis- 

 sumption, which the accounts do not authorize, 

 and which is sufficiently refuted by Deschnew's 

 intention to build a ship at the mouth of the Ana- 

 dyr, to send back the extorted tribute to Jakutzk, 

 by the same way. 



* A Memoir on the Geography of the North-Eastern part of 

 Asia, and on the question whether Asia and America are con- 

 ti-mous, or are separated by the Sea. By Captain James 

 Barney. — Philosophical Transactions, 1818, refuted in the 

 Quarterly Review, June 1818. 



A Chronological History of the Nortli-Eastcrn Voyages of 

 Discovery, by Captain James Burney, F.ll.S. London, 1819. 



