Preface; 1. Concerning the earliest knowledge obtained of the sea north of Europe and of Asia; 2. Voyages made by the English, and by the Hollanders, in search of a North-East Passage from the European seas to India; 3. Of the general extension of the Russian Empire; 4. Report of a large land in the Icy Sea; 5. Attempts from the European Sea to discover a North-East Passage by the Danes, by the Dutch, and by John Wood, an Englishman; 6. Invasion of Kamtschatka; 7. Of the voyage of Taras Staduchin from the Kolyma to the sea of Kamtschatka; 8. Expedition of the Russians against the Tschuktzki; 9. Invasion of the Kurili Islands; 10. The Russians build ships in the ports of the Eastern Sea; 11. Willegin and Amossow in the Icy Sea; 12. Voyage of Captain Vitus Bering from Kamtschatka to the North; 13. Plans and expeditions of Schestakow; 14. Plans formed at Petersburgh for the prosecution of Eastern Discovery; 15. Voyage of Spanberg and Walton to Japan; 16. Voyage of Commodore Bering and Captain Tschirikow to America; 17. Enterprising attempts of Shalauroff, a Russian merchant, to sail round the north-east of Asia; 18. Of the lands in the Icy Sea; 19. Captain James Cook on the north-west coast of America; 20. Captain Cook through Bering's Strait, and in the sea north of the Strait; 21. Sequel; 22. Expedition of Captain Joseph Billings into the Icy Sea; 23. Billings at the Aleutian Islands; 24. Journey of Captain Billings through the country of the Tschuktzki; Conclusion.