In 1 7 64 Synd put to fea from the port o f Ochotfk, but
did not pafs (we know not by what accident) the
fouthern Cape of Kamtchatka and Shulhu, the firft Kuril
Ifie, before 1766. He then fteered his courle North at
no great diflance from the coaft of the Peninfula, but
made very little progrefs that year, for he wintered South
o f the river Uka.
The following year he failed from Ukinlki Point due
Eaft and North Eaft, until he fell in with a duller of
illands* ftretching between 61 and 6zdegrees of latitude,
and 195° and aoa° longitude. Thefe illands lie South
Eaft and Eaft of the coaft of the Tfehutiki; and feveral
of them are fituated very near the fhore. Befides thefe
fmall illands,, he difcovered alfo a mountainous coaft
lying within one degree of the coaft of the Tfchutski,
between 64 and 6 b North latitude ; its molt Weftern
extremity was fituated in longitude 38° 15' from
Ochotsk,. or 1990 1' from Fero. This ifland is laid
down in his chart as part of the continent of America;
but we cannot determine upon what proofs he
grounds this reprefentafion, until a more circumftantial
account of his voyage is communicated to the public.
* Thefe are certainly fome of the illands which the Tfehutiki refort
to in their way to what they call the continent of America.
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