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our reckoning, corrected by the time-keepers and lunar ob- l ? 79- 



r June. 



fervations, makes it 3' 34' Eaft ward of that place, or 162 17' ' *•— -/ 



Eaft from Greenwich. The land about this cape is very 

 high, and the inland mountains were mil covered with fnow. 

 The fhore breaks off in fteep cliffs, and the coaft is without 

 any appearance of inlets or bays. We had not been long 

 gratified with this fight of the land, when the wind frefhen- 

 ed from the South Weft, and brought on a thick fog, which 

 obliged us to (land off to the North Eaft by Eaft. The wea- 

 ther clearing up again at noon, we fleered toward the land, 

 expecting to fall in with Kamtfchatfkoi Nofs, and had fight 

 of it at day-break of the 21ft. Monday 21^ 



The Southerly wind was foon after fucceeded by a light 

 breeze blowing off the land, which prevented our approach- 

 ing the coaft fufliciently near to defcribe its afpect, or afcer- 

 tain, with accuracy, its direction. At noon our latitude, by 

 obfervation, was 55* 52', and longitude (deduced from a 

 comparifon of many lunar obfervations, taken near this 

 time, with the time-keepers), 163 50'; the extremities of 

 the land bearing North Weft by Weft, three quarters Weft, 

 and North by Weft three quarters Weft, the neareft part 

 about eight leagues diftant. At nine o'clock in the evening, 

 having approached about two leagues nearer the coaft, we 

 found it formed a projecting peninfula, extending about 

 twelve leagues in a direction nearly North and South. It is 

 level, and of a moderate height, the Southern extremity 

 terminating in a low floping point > that to the North form- 

 ing a fteep bluff head ; and between them, about four 

 leagues to the Southward of the Northern Cape, there is a 

 confiderable break in the land. On each fide of this break 

 the land is quite low; beyond the opening rifes a remark- 

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