THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 347 



At five in the afternoon, our latitude being then 58* s^'y ''78. 



and our longitude 220' 52' ; the fummit of an elevated »- — . — -' 

 mountain appeared above the horizon, bearing North, 

 26° Wed ; and, as was afterward found, forty leagues diftant. 

 We fuppofed it to be Beering's Mount St. Elias j and it flands 

 by that name in our chart. 



This day we faw feveral whales, feals, and porpoifes ; 

 many gulls, and feveral flocks of birds, which had a black 

 ring about the head ; the tip of the tail, and upper part of 

 the wings with a black band ; and the reft blueifli above, 

 and white below. We alfo faw a brownifli duck, with a 

 black or deep blue head and neck, fitting upon the water. 



Having but light winds, with fome calms, we advanced Wednef. 6. 

 flowly ; fo that, on the 6th at noon, wc were only in the 

 latitude of 59" 8', and in the longitude of 220'' 19'. Mount 

 Fair Weather bore South, 63° Eaft, and Mount Elias North, 

 30° Weft ; the neareft land about eight leagues diftant. In 

 the dire(5lion of North, 47° Eaft from this ftation, tlierc was 

 the appearance of a bay, and an ifland off the South point of 

 if, that was covered with wood. It is here where I fuppofc 

 Commodore Becring to have anchored. The latitude, whicli 

 is 59° 18', correfponds pretty well with the map of his voy- 

 age*, and the longitude is 221' Eaft. Behind the bay (which 

 I fliall diftinguifli by the name of Beering's Bay^ in honour of 

 its difcoverer), or rather to the South of it, the chain of 

 mountains before mentioned, is interrupted by a plain of a 

 few leagues extent; beyond which the fight was unlimit- 



" fes hautes montagnes couvcrtes de niege." The chain, or rijge of mountains, co- 

 vercii with ("now, mentioned here by Captain Cook, in thj iame latitude, exaclly 

 agrees with what Beering met with. See Mallei's Foyages et Dccouvertes des Ruja^ 

 p. 248-254. 



* Probably, Captain Coolc means Muller's map, prefixed to liis FliHory of the 

 Ruffian Difcoveries, 



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