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'?79- troffes. We took the advantage of a little calm wea- 



June. ° 



i — - — j ther to try for fifh, and caught abundance of fine 

 cod. The depth of water from fixty-five to feventy-five 

 fathoms. 



July. On the ill of July at noon, Mr. Bligh having moored a 



a>1 fmall keg with the deep-fea lead, in feventy-five fathoms, 

 found the fliip made a courfe North by Eaft, half a mile an 

 hour. This he attributed to the efFecr, of a long Southerly 

 fvvell, and not to that of any current. The wind freshen- 

 ing from the South Eaft toward evening, we fhaped our 

 courfe to the North Eaft by Eaft, for the point called in Beer- 

 ing's chart, Tfchukotfkoi Nofs, which we had obferved on 

 the 4th of September laft year, at the fame time that we 

 faw, to the South Eaft, the ifland of Saint Laurence. This 

 Cape, and Saint Thadeus's Nofs, form the North Eaft and South 

 Weft extremities of the large and deep Gulph of Anadir, 

 into the bottom of which the river of that name empties 

 itfelf, dividing, as it paflcs, the country of the Koriacs 

 from that of the Tfchutfki. 



Saturday 3. On the 3d at noon, the latitude, by obfervation, was 6f 

 33', and the longitude 186 45'; half an hour after which 

 we got fight of the Tfchukotfkoi Nofs, bearing North half 

 Weft, thirteen or fourteen leagues diftant, and at five in the 

 afternoon faw the ifland of Saint Laurence, bearing Eaft 

 three-quarters North ; and another ifland a little to the Haft- 

 ward of it, which we fuppofed to be between Saint Laurence 

 and Anderibn's Ifland, about fix leagues Eaft South Eaft of 

 the former. As we had no certain accounts of this ifland, 

 Captain Clerke was defirous of a nearer profpeet, and im- 

 mediately hauled the wind toward it ; but, unfortunate!}-, 

 we were nor able to weather the ifland of Saint Laurence, 



and 



