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The reader of this Journal will have observed how 

 useful an assistant I had found him in the course of 

 the voyage ; and had it pleased God to have spared 

 his life, the public, I make no doubt, might have 

 received from him such communications, on various 

 parts of the natural history of the several places we 

 visited, as would have abundantly shown that he was 

 not unworthy of this commendation. # Soon after 

 he had breathed his last, land was seen to the west- 

 ward, twelve leagues distant. It was supposed to be 

 an island; and, to perpetuate the memory of the 

 deceased, for whom I had a very great regard, I 

 named it Anderson's Island. The next dav, I re- 

 moved Mr. Law, the surgeon of the Discovery, into 

 the Resolution, and appointed Mr. Samuel, the sur- 

 geon's first mate of the Resolution, to be surgeon of 

 the Discovery. 



On the 4th, at three in the afternoon, land was 

 seen, extending from north north-east to north-west. 

 We stood on toward it till four o'clock, when, being 

 four or five miles from it, we tacked ; and soon after, 

 the wind falling, we anchored in thirteen fathoms water, 

 over a sandy bottom ; being about two leagues from 

 the land, and, by our reckoning, in the latitude of 

 64 Ti\ and in the longitude of 194 IS'. At inter- 

 vals, we could see the coast extending from east to 

 north-west, and a pretty high island, bearing west by 

 north, three leagues distant. 



The land before us, which we supposed to be the 

 continent of America, appeared low next the sea ; 

 but, inland, it swelled into hills, which rise, one be- 

 hind another, to a considerable height. It had a 

 greenish hue, but seemed destitute of wood, and free 

 from snow. While we lay at anchor, we found that 



* Mr. Anderson's Journal seems to have been discontinued for 

 about two months before his death ; the last date in his M. S. being 

 of the third of June. 



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