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CHAP. III. 



■Continuation of Tranfa&ions in the Harbour of St. Peter 

 and St. Paul. — Abundance of Fifh. — Death of a Sea- 

 man belonging to the Refolution. — The Ruffian Hofpital put 

 under the Care of the Ship's Surgeons. — Supply of Flour 

 a fid Cattle. — Celebration of the King's Eirth-cliv. — 

 Difficulties in Jailing cut of the Bay. — Eruption of 

 a Volcano. — Steer to the Northward. — CheepoonfkoiNofs. 

 — Errors of the Ruffian Charts. — Kamtfchatflioi Nofs. 

 — Olutorflioi Nofs. — Tjchukotjkoi Nofs. — Ifand of St. 

 Laurence. — View, from the fame Point, of the Coajls of 

 Afia and America, and the Iflands of St. Diomede. — ■ 

 Various Attempts to get to the North, between the two 

 Continents. — Obflru&ed by impenetrable Ice — Sea borfes 

 and white Bears killed. — Captain Gierke s Deter?ni?iation t 

 and future Defgns. 



1779. T TAVING concluded the laft chapter with an account of 

 ^_ a> _'_, XTJl our return from Bolcheretfk, accompanied by Major 

 Eehm, the Commander of Kamtfchatka, and of his departure ; 

 I mall proceed to relate the tranfactions that patted in the 

 harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul during our abfencc. On 

 Friday 7 the 7th of May, foon after we had left the bay, a large 

 piece of ice drove acrofs the cut-water of the Refolution, 

 and brought home the fmall bower anchor. This obliged 

 them to weigh the other anchor, and moor again. The 



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