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'773. flocks. Befides thefc, we daily faw mofl of the other fea- 



^^....v-^ birds, that arc commonly found in other Northern oceans ; 



fuch as gulls, Ihags, puflins, fhecrvvaters ; and fometimes 



ducks, geefe, and fwans. And fcldoni a day paflTed without 



feeing feals, whales, and other large fifli. 



In the afternoon, we got a light breeze of wind Southerly, 

 •which enabled us to fleer Weft, for the channel that appear- 

 ed between iheiflands and the continent; and, at day break 

 Friday 19. ^cxt moming, we were at no great diftance from it, and 

 found feveral other illands, within thofe already feen by us, 

 of various extent both in height and circuit. But between 

 thefe laft iflands, and thofe before feen, there feemed to be 

 a clear channel, for which I fleered, being afraid to keep 

 the coaft of the continent aboard, left we fliould miftakc 

 fome point of it for an ifland, and, by that means, be drawn 

 into fome inlet, and lofe the advantage of the fair wind, 

 which at this time blew. 



I therefore kept along the Southernmoft chain of iflands ; 

 and at noon we were in the latitude of 55* 18', and in the 

 narroweft part of the channel, formed by them and thofe 

 which lie along the continent, where it is about a league 

 and a half, or two leagues over. The largeft iiland in this 

 group was now on our left, and is diftinguilhed by the name 

 of Ko.'iiak *, according to the information we afterward re- 

 ceived. I left the reft of them without names. I believe 

 them to be the fame that Bccring calls Schumagin's 

 Iflands -j-; or thofe iflands which he called by that name, to 

 be a part of them ; for this group is pretty extenfivc. We 



* Sec an Account of Kodiak, in Stxhlin's New Northern ArchipeLigo, 

 p. 30-39. 



t Sec MuWcT'i D(cou-utrUi dss Ru^s, p. 262 — 277. 



faw 



