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J778- North North Faft to Eaft, or Eaft by South, about twelve or 



May. 



^_ -.-' J fourteen leagues dirtant. An hour after, I fleered North by 

 Saturday 2. Weft ; and at four the next morning, the coaft was feen from 



North by Weft to South Baft, the neareft part about fix 



leagues diftant '■. 



At this time the Northern point of an inlet, or what ap- 

 peared to be one, bore Eaftby South. It lies in the latitude of 

 56'; and from it to the Northward, the coaft feemed to be 

 much broken, forming bays and harbours every two or 

 three leagues ; or elfe appearances much deceived us. At 

 fix o'clock, drawing nearer the land, I fleered North Weft 

 by North, this being the diredlion of the coaft ; having a 

 frefli gale at South Eaft, with fome fliowers of hail, fnow 

 and fleet. Between eleven and twelve o'clock, we pafled a 

 group of fmall iflands lying under the main land, in the la- 

 titude of 56° 48' ; and oft", or rather to the Northv/ard of, 

 the South point of a large, bay. An arm of this bay, in the 

 Northern part of it, feemed to extend in toward the North, 

 behind a round elevated mountain that lies between it and 

 the fea. This mountain I called Mount Edgecwnbe ; and the 

 point ot' land that flioots out from it, Cape Edgeciimbe. The 

 latter lies in the latitude of 57° 3', and in the longitude 

 of 224° 7' ; and, at noon, it bore North 20° Weft, fix leagues 

 diftant. 



* This muft be very near that paVt of the American coaft, where Tfcherikow an- 

 chored in 1741. For Muller places its latitude in 56°. Had this Ruffian navigator 

 been (o fortunate as to proceed a little farther Northward along the coaft, he would 

 have found, as we now learn from Captain Cook, bays, and harbours, and iflands, 

 where his fhip might have been ftieltered, and his people protected in landing. For the 

 particulars of the misfortunes he met with here, two boats crcv/<:, which he fcnt aftiorc, 

 having never returned, probably cut off by the natives, fee Alulkr s Dtcsuvertes de 

 Rujfes, p. 248. 254. The Spaniards, in 177^, found two good harbours on this 

 part of the coaft; that called Gualoupe, in latitude 57' 11', and the other, De los 

 Remedios, in latitude 57" 18'. 



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