THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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The weather continued, for the moft part, foggy, till to- "778. 



July. 



ward noon on the 28th, when we had a few hours clear * •■—* 



fun-fliine ; during which we made feveral lunar obferva- "^ ^^^ ' 



tions. The mean refult of them, reduced to noon, when 



the latitude was 59° 55', gave 190° 6' longitude; and the 



time-keeper gave 89*59'. The variation of the compafs 



was iH" 40' Eaft. Continuing our Wefterly courfe, the water 



having now deepened to thirty-fix fathoms, at four o'clock 



next morning, we difcovered land, bearing North Weft by Wednef. 25, 



Weft, fix leagues diftant. We flood toward it till half paft 



ten, when we tacked in twenty-four fathoms water ; being, 



at this time, a league from the land, which bore North 



North Weft. It was the South Eaft extremity, and formed 



a perpendicular cliff of confiderable height ; on which ac- 



count it was called Point Upright^ and lies in the latitude of 



60° 17', and in the longitude of 187" 30'. More land waff 



feen ro the Weftvvard of the Point ; and, at a clear interval, 



we faw another elevated portion of land, in the diredlion of 



Weft by South ; and this feemed to be entirely feparated, 



from the other. Here we met with an incredible number 



of birds, all as the awk kind before defcribed. 



We had baffling light winds all the afternoon, fo that 

 we made but little progrefs j and the weather was not clear 

 enough to enable us to determine the extent of the land be- 

 fore us. We fuppofed it to be one of the many iflands laid, 

 down by Mr. Stjehlin in his map of the New Northern Ar- 

 chipelago; and we expedted every moment to fee more of 

 them. 



At four in the afternoon of the 30th, Point Upright bore Thurfday3o. 

 North Weft by North, fix leagues diftant. About this time, 

 a light breeze fpringing up at North North Weft, we ftood 

 to the North Eaft till four o'clock next morning, when thc; 



wind 



