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and we saw the Asiatic coast about Tschukutskoi 

 Noss ; but it soon returned, and with it a light air 

 i J 8 26.' in the contrary direction to our course. The next 

 day, as we could make no progress, the trawl was put 

 overboard, in the hope of providing a fresh meal for 

 the ship's company ; but after remaining down a 

 considerable time, it came up with only a sculpen 

 (cottus scorpius), a few specimens of moluscas, and 

 crustacean, consisting principally of maias. In the 

 evening, Lieutenant Peard was more successful in 

 procuring specimens with the dredge, which sup- 

 plied us with a great variety of invertebral animals, 

 consisting of asterias, holothurias, echini, amphi- 

 trites, ascidias, actinias, euryales, murex, chiton cri- 

 nitus, nereides, maias, gammarus, and pagurus, the 

 latter inhabiting chiefly old shells of the murex ge- 

 nus. This was in seventeen fathoms over a muddy 

 bottom, several leagues from the island. 



About noon the fog dispersed, and we saw nearly 

 the whole extent of the St. Lawrence Island, from the 

 N. W. cape we had rounded the preceding night to 

 the point near which Cook reached close in with, 

 after his departure from Norton Sound. The mid- 

 dle of this island was so low, that to us it appeared 

 to be divided, and I concluded, as both Cook and 

 Clerke had done before, that it was so; circumstances 

 did not, however, admit of my making this examin- 

 ation, and the connexion of the two islands was left 

 for the discovery of Captain Schismareff of the Rus- 

 sian navy. The hills situated upon the eastern part 

 of the island, to which Cook gave the name of his 

 companion Captain Clerke, are the highest part of 

 St. Lawrence Island, and were at this time deeply 

 buried in snow. 



