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was feen to the Weftward, twelve leagues diftant. It was ^778^ 

 fuppofed to be an ifland ; and, to perpetuate the memory of <- .-^-. j 

 the deceafed, for whom I had a very great regard, I named 

 it Anderjons Ijland. The next day, I removed Mr. Law, the • 

 furgeon of the Difcovery, into the Refblution, and appoint- 

 ed Mr. Samuel, the Surgeon's firft mate of the Refolution, to 

 be Surgeon of the Difcovery. 



On the 4th, at three in the afternoon, land was feen, ex- Tuefday4. 

 tending fioni North North Eaft to North Weft. We flood on 

 toward it till four o'clock, when, being four or five miles 

 from it, we tacked ; and, foon after, the wind falling, we 

 anchored in thirteen fathoms water, over a fandy bottom'; 

 being about two leagues from the land, and, by our reckon- 

 ing, in the latitude of 64° 27', and in the longitude of 1 94.° 1 8'. 

 At . intervals, we could fee the coaft extending from Eaft to 

 North Weft, and k pretty high ifland, bearing Weft by North, 

 three leagues diftant. 



The land before us, which we fuppofed to be the conti- 

 nent of America, appeared low next the fea J but, inland, it 

 fwelled into hills, which rife, one behind another, to a con- 

 fiderable height. It had a grecnifla hue, but feemed defli- 

 tute of wood, and free from fnow. While we lay at an- 

 chor, we found that the flood-tide came from the Eaft, and 

 fet to the Weft, till between ten and eleven o'clock. From 

 that time, till two the next morning, the flream fet to the 

 Eaftward, and the water fell three feet. The flood ran both 

 flrongcr and longer than the ebb ; from which I concluded, 

 that, befides the tide, there was a Wefterly current. 



At ten in the morning of the 5th, with the wind at South wednef»5. 

 Weft, we ran down, and anchored between the ifland and 

 the continent, in feven fathoms water. Soon after, I landed 



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