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'779- within four miles of it, and finding it to be two iflands, 



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^—J. — j were pretty well fatisfied of their being the fame; but the 

 weather (till continuing hazy, to make fure of our fituation, 

 we flood over to the coaft of Afia, till feven in the evening; 

 at which time we were within two or three leagues of the 

 Eaft Cape of that continent. 



This Cape is a high round head of land, extending four 

 or five miles from North to South, forming a peninfula, and' 

 connected with the continent by a narrow neck of low land. 

 Its fhore is bold, and off its North part are three high, de- 

 tached, fpiral rocks. At this time it was covered with fnow, 

 and the beach furrounded with ice. We were now con- 

 vinced, that we had been under the influence of a ftrong. 

 current, fetting to the North, that had caufed an error in 

 our latitude at noon of twenty miles. In paffing this (trait 

 the lad year, we had experienced the fame effect. 



Being at length fure of our pofition, we held on to the 

 North by Eaft. At ten at night, the weather becoming clear> 

 we had an opportunity of feeing, at the fame moment, the 

 remarkable peaked hill, near Cape Prince of Wales, on the 

 coaft of America, and the Eaft Cape of Afia, with the two 

 connecting iflands of Saint Diomede between them. 



Tuefday6. At noon on the 6th, the latitude, by account, was 67" 

 North, and the longitude 191" 6' Eaft. Having already pall- 

 ed a confiderable number of large mafTes of ice, and ob- 

 ferved, that it ft ill adhered in feveral places to.the fhore on 

 the continent of Afia, we were not much furprized to fall 

 in, at three in the afternoon, with an extenfivc body of it, 

 ftretching away to the Weft ward. This fight gave great dif- 

 couragement to our hopes of advancing much farther 

 Northward this year, than we had done the preceding. 



Having 



