382 AVOYAGETO 



CHAP. VI. 



Progrefs along the Coaft. — Cape Elizabeth.— -Cape St, 

 Hermogenes, — Accounts of Beerings Voyage very de- 

 feSlive, — Point Banks. — Cape Douglas. — Cape Bede. — 

 Mount St. Augujlin, — Hopes of finding a Pajfage up 

 an Inlet. — The Ships proceed up it. — Indubitable Marks 

 of its being a River. — Named CooKs River. — Ihe Ships 

 return down it. — Various Vifits from the Natives. — 

 Lieutenant King lands^ and takes pofeffion oj the Coun- 

 ffy,,.^His Report. — The Rejolution runs aground on a 

 Shoal. — RefleEiions on the Difcovery of CooKs River, — 

 The co?jfiderable Tides in it accounted for, 



1778. A FTER leaving Prince William's Sound, I fleered to 



y^^li__j JLjl the South Weft, with a gentle breeze at North North 

 Wednef. 20. g^jr^ which, at four o'clock, the next morning, was fuc- 

 ceeded by a calm ; and foon after, the calm was fucceeded by 

 a breeze from South Weft. This frediening and veering to 

 North Weft, we ftill continued to ftretch to the South Weft, 

 and pafied a lofty promontory, fituated in the latitude of 

 59° 10', and the longitude of 207* 45'. As the diicovery of 

 it was connc<5led with the Princefs Elizabeth's birth-day, I 

 named it Cape Elizabeth. Beyond it we could fee no land ; fo 

 that, at firft, we were in hopes that it was the Weftcrn ex- 

 tremity of the continent ; but not long after, we faw our 

 miftake ; for frcfli land appeared in fight, bearing Weft 

 South Weft. 



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