The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . or he doubted the correct-ness of the accounts of Deschnevs voyage. Compare James Burney, AChronological History of North-eastern Voi/ages of Discover//. London, 1819,p. 298 ; and a paper by Burney in the Transactions of the Royal Society,1817. Burney was violently attacked for the views there expressed byCaptain John Dundas Cochrane. Narrative of q, Pedestrian Journeij throughRussia and Siberian Tartary, 2nd ed. London, 1824, Appendix. XIII.] MAP OF ASIA: 533 in
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . or he doubted the correct-ness of the accounts of Deschnevs voyage. Compare James Burney, AChronological History of North-eastern Voi/ages of Discover//. London, 1819,p. 298 ; and a paper by Burney in the Transactions of the Royal Society,1817. Burney was violently attacked for the views there expressed byCaptain John Dundas Cochrane. Narrative of q, Pedestrian Journeij throughRussia and Siberian Tartary, 2nd ed. London, 1824, Appendix. XIII.] MAP OF ASIA: 533 instance that Asia stretched with a cape as far as to theneighbourhood of the Pole, or that a broad isthmus between thePjiisina and the Olenek connected the known portion of thisquarter of the world with an Asiatic Polar continent. Nor hadgeographers a single actual determination of position orgeographical measurement from the whole of the immensestretch between the mouth of the Ob and Japan, and there wascomplete uncertainty as to the relative position of the eastern-most possessions of the Russians on the one side and of Japan. }\ f ^ n c ^ . X\ ,_i-^-«Mf-^-r ^—^ r- ieIri } •oAa MIORE : INDllSKOiE . / tr (~ ! . , ] ^_ ± MAP OF ASIA. From an Atlas published by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1737. on the other.^ It was difficult to get the maps of the Russiansto correspond with those of the Portuguese and the Dutch, atthe point where the discoveries of the different nations touchedeach other; which also was exceedingly natural, as at that timetoo limited an extent east and west by 1700 kilometres wascommonly assigned to Siberia. In order to investigate thispoint, in order to fill up the great blank which still existed in 1 The first astronomical determinations of position in Siberia were, per-liaps, made by Swediali prisoners of war ; the first in China by Jesuits(Cf. Strahlenhtrg, p. 14). 534 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. the knowledge of the quarter of the world firs
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