N° IX.
Voyage o f Lieutenant Synd to the North Eaft o f Siberia—
He difcovers a clufter o f ijlands, and a promontory,.
which he fuppofes to belong to the continent o/America*
lying near the coafl o f the TfchutikL
IN 1764 lieutenant Synd failed from Ochotsk, upon a
voyage of difcovery towards the continent of America.
He was ordered to take a different courfe from that held
by the late Ruffian veffels, which lay due Eaft from the
coaft of Kamtchatka. As he fleered therefore his courfe
more to the North Eaft than any of the preceding navigators,
and as it appears from all the voyages related in
the firft part of this work *, that the vicinity of America
is to be fought for in that quarter alone, any accurate
account of this expedition would not fail of being highly
interefting. It is therefore a great mortification to me,
that, while I raife the reader’s curiofity, I am not able
fully to fatisfy it. The following intelligence concerning
this voyage is all which I was able to procure. It is
accompanied with an authentic chart.
* See p . 27.
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