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a little to the Weft ward, and has a fmall inlet, which may V 779 * 



' * June. 



probably be the mouth of fome trifling ftream. Our lati- ^ — » — -» 

 tude, by obfervation, was 61° 56', and longitude 175° 43', 

 and the variation of the compafs 17 30' Eaft. 



We continued, during the afternoon, to run along the 

 more, at the diftance of four or five leagues, with a mode- 

 rate Wefterly breeze, carrying regular foundings from 

 twenty-eight to thirty-fix fathoms. The coaft presented the 

 fame barren a f peel: as to the Southward ; the hills rifing 

 confiderably inland, but to what height, the clouds on their 

 tops put it out of our power to determine. At eight in the 

 evening, land was thought to have been feen to the Eaft by 

 North, on which we fleered to the Southward of Eaft ; but 

 it turned out to be only a fog bank. At midnight, the ex- 

 treme point bearing North Eaft a quarter Eaft, we fuppofed 

 it to be Saint Thadeus's Nofs ; to the Southward of which, 

 ihe land trends to the Weftward, and forms a deep bight, 

 wherein, according to the Ruffian charts, lies the river 

 Katirka. 



On the 29th, the weather was unfettlcd and variable, Tuefday 39. 

 with the wind from the North Eaft. At noon of the 30th, Wednef. 30. 

 our latitude, by obfervation, was 61° 48', and longitude 

 1 8-° o'j at which time Saint Thadeus's Nofs bore North 

 North Weft, twenty-three leagues diftant, and beyond it 

 we obferved the coaft ftretching almoft direclly North. The 

 moft Eafteiiy point of the Nofs is in latitude 6z° 50', and 

 longitude 179 o', being 34. more to the Eaft, than what the 

 Ruffians make it. The land about it muft be of a confidcr- 

 able height from its being feen at fo great a diftance. Dur- 

 ing the two la ft days, we law numbers of whales, large 

 feals, and fea-horfes 5 alfo gulls, fea-parrots, and alba- 



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