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A VOYAGE TO 



1778. fnow fiiowers immediately commenced ; whereas, all the 



September. , ■ -m r,' i 1 1 • 1 



•l -.- .' tmie that we were m Norton Sound, we liad, with the 

 fame wind, clear weather. Might not this be occafioned by 

 the mountains to the North of that place attracting the va- 

 pours, and hindering them to proceed any farther i 



Wednef. 23. At day-break in the morning of the 23d, the land above 

 mentioned appeared in fight, bearing South Weft, fix or 

 feven leagues diftanr. From this point of view, it refembled 

 a group of illands ; but it proved to be but one, of thirty 

 miles in extent, in the direction of North Weft and South 

 Eaft; the South Eaft end being Cape Upright, already taken 

 notice of. The iftand is but narrow; efpecially at the low 

 necks of land that connecft the hills. I afterward found, 

 that it was wholly unknown to the Ruffians ; and therefore 

 confidering it as a difcovery of our own, I named it Gore's 

 jjland. It appeared to be barren, and without inhabitants ; 

 at leaft we faw none. Nor did we fee fo many birds about it, 

 as when we firft difcovcred it. But we faw fome fea-otters j 

 an animal which we had not met with to the North of this 

 latitude. Four leagues from Cape Upright, in the direcflion 

 of South, 72° "Weft, lies a fmall iftand, whofe elevated fum- 

 mit terminates in fevcral pinnacle rocks. On this account 

 it was named Pinnacle Jjland, At two in the afternoon, after 

 paffing Cape Upright, I fteercd South Eaft by South, for 

 Samganoodha, with a gentle breeze at North North Weft, 

 being refolved to fpend no more time in fearching for a har- 

 bour amongft iflands, which I now began to fufpeft had no 

 cxiftence ; at leaft, not in the latitude and longitude where 

 modern map-makers have thought proper to place them. 



Tturfd.iy24. In the evening of the 24th, the wind veered to South Weft 

 and Sovith, and increafed to a frefli gale. 



We 



