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in this latitude ; but as I have observed before, we 

 must not look for accuracy in this chart. 



At eleven o'clock, as we were steering to the N. E., 

 we discovered an elevated rock, like a tower, 

 bearing N. N. E. -- E., four leagues distant. It lies 

 in the latitude of 53 57', and in the longitude of 

 191 %>\ and hath no place in the Russian map.* We 

 must have passed very near it in the night. We 

 could judge of its steepness from this circumstance, 

 that the sea, which now ran very high, broke no 

 where but against it. At three in the afternoon, 

 after getting a sight of Oonalashka, we shortened 

 sail, and hauled the wind, not having time to get 

 through the passage before night. At day-break the 

 next morning, we bore away under courses, and 

 close-reefed top-sails, having a very hard gale at 

 W.N.W., with heavy squalls, attended with snow. At 

 noon, we were in the middle of the strait, between 

 Oonalashka and Oonella, the harbour of Samga- 

 noodha bearing S. S. E., one league distant. At 

 three in the afternoon, being through the strait and 

 clear of the isles, Cape Providence bearing W. S. W., 

 two or three leagues distant, we steered to the 

 southward, under double-reefed top-sails and courses, 

 with the wind at W.N. W., a strong gale, and fair 



weather. 



On Monday the 2d of November, the wind veered 

 to the southward, and before night blew a violent 

 storm, which obliged us to bring to. The Discovery 

 rired several guns, which we answered, but without 

 knowing on what occasion they were fired. At eight 



* Though this rock had no place in the Russian map produced 

 by Ismyloft", it has a place in the chart of Krenitzen's and LevashefPs 

 voyage, above referred to. The chart also agrees with Captain 

 Cook's, as to the general position of this group of islands. The 

 singularly indented shores of the island of Oonalashka are repre- 

 sented in both charts much alike ; these circumstances are worth 

 attending to, as the more modern Russian maps of this Archipelago 

 are so wonderfully erroneous. 



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