Cx 
Care North. 
Burney’s Ise. 
Serpze Kamen. 
Cart. BERING. 
East Cape. 
I C.-Y S E A. 
After croffing the Jcy Sea from the moft extreme part of the coaft of America 
which he could attain, he fell in with land. It appeared low near the fea, and 
high inland; and between both lay a great lake. Toa fteep and rocky point, 
nearly in lat. 68. 56, and long. 180. 51, his ne plus ultra on the Afatic fide, he 
gave the name of Cape North; beyond which he could not fee any land, notwith- 
ftanding the weather was pretty clear. ‘The fea, at three miles diftance from the 
fhore, was only eight fathoms deep: this, with a rifing wind, approaching fog, 
and apprehenfion of the coming down of the ice, obliging him to defift from 
farther attempts in thefe parts, he proceeded as near to the coaft as he could with 
prudence, towards the fouth-eaft, and found it retain the fame appearance. In 
lat. 67. 45, he difcovered a fmall ifle, about three leagues from the main, with 
fteep and rocky fhores, on which he beftowed the name of Burney, in honor of 
one of his officers ; gratefully immortalizing the companions of his voyage, in this 
and other inftances. After pafling the ifland, the continent inland rofe into 
mountains of confiderable height, the termination of the great chain I before 
defcribed. an 
In lat. 67. 3, long. 188. 11, he fell in with Serdze Kamen *, a lofty promontory, . 
faced towards the fea with a fteep rocky cliff. To the eaftward the coaft continues 
high and bold, towards the North Cape low, being a continuation of the Arétic 
flats. This was the northern limit of the voyage of another illuftrious navigator, 
Captain Virus Berinc, a Dane by birth, and employed on the fame plan of 
difcovery in thefe parts as our great countryman was in the late voyage. He 
was in the fervice of Perer the Great; who, by the ftrength of an extenfive 
genius, conceiving an opinion of the vicinity of America to his Afatic dominions, 
laid down a plan of difcovery worthy of fo extraordinary a monarch, but died 
before the attempt was begun ; but his fpirit furvived in his fucceflor. Brrinc, 
after a tedious and fatiguing journey through the wilds of Sybiria, arrived in Kamt- 
[chatka, attended with the fcanty materials for his voyage, the greateft part of 
which he was obliged to bring with him through a thoufand difficulties. Several 
of the circumftances of his adventures will be occafionally mentioned +. I fhall 
only fay here, that he failed from the river of Kamt/chatka on Fuly 15th, 1728 ; 
on the 15th of Augu/? faw Serdze Kamen, or the heart-fhaped rock, a name be~ 
ftowed on it by the firft difcoverer. 
From Serdze Kamen to a promontory named by Captain Coox Eaf Capet, the 
land trends fouth-eaft. ‘The laft is a circular peninfula of high cliffs, projecting 
* See tab. 84 of the Voyage. + The account of the voyage is extremely worthy of perufal, 
and is preferved by the able Doétor Campbell, in Harris's Colleétion, ii. 1038. J Seetab. 84 
of the Voyage. 
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