Author: Otto von KotzebuePublisher:
ISBN: 9781332614981
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Excerpt from A Voyage of Discovery, Into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, Vol. 1 of 3: For the Purpose of Exploring a North-East Passage, Undertaken in the Years 1815-1818, at the Expense of His Highness Count Romanzoff, in the Ship Rurick, Under the Command of the Lieutenant Russia, too, which, since the time Of Peter the Great, has possessed a navy, and never was in different to any thing that might tend to the im provement Of science, would not be behind other nations in endeavouring to solve this interesting problem; and during two successive years, three vessels, commanded by the late Admiral Tschits chagoff, father of the present admiral, were em ployed to search for the passage, exactly in the North, between Greenland and Spitzbergen. This expedition shared the fate of all preceding attempts of the kind, without any blame being attributable to the admiral, any more than to Lord Mulgrave, who was sent from England seven years later, in the same direction, and proceeded only twelve minutes farther to the North than the Russian commander. Cook's third voyage, though not finished by himself, seemed to have put an end to all doubts respecting the possibility of a Northern Passage; but we do not know whether the great man himself really despaired of it. His researches in Beering's Straits brought him, the first year, to the 70th degree, where the ice hindered him from proceeding; yet he resolved to renew his researches there the succeeding year; this design was frustra ted by his untimely end, but the resolution he had taken proves that he did not doubt the possibility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
