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'779- the roth, when, after a few hours rain, it blew from the 



Auguft. yen 



* „ ' Eaftward, and frefnened to a ftrong gale. We accordingly 



made the mod of it whilft it laded, by Handing to the Weft- 



Fridayzo. ward, under all the fail we could carry. On the 20th, the 

 wind fhifting to the South Weft, ourcourfewas to the Weft 

 North Weft. At noon, the latitude, by obfervation, was 



Saturday 21. ^f j t longitude i62°49'. 0n the 2lft > at half P aft fivc i n 

 the morning, we faw a very high peaked mountain on the 

 coaft of Kamtfchatka, called Cheepoonfkoi Mountain, from 

 its lying behind the Nofs, bearing North Weft by North, 

 twenty-five or thirty leagues diftant. At noon, the coaft 

 extended from North by Eaft to Weft, with a very great ha- 

 zinefs upon it, and diftant about twelve leagues. We had 

 light airs the remaining part of this and the following day, 

 and got no foundings with one hundred and forty fathoms 

 of line. 



Sunday 22. On the 22d of Auguft, .1779. at nine o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, departed this life Captain Charles Clerke, in the thirty- 

 eighth year of his age. He died of a confumption, which 

 had evidently commenced before he left England, and of 

 which he had lingered during the whole voyage. His very 

 gradual decay had long made him a melancholy object to 

 his friends ; yet the equanimity with which he bore it, the 

 conftant flow of good fpirits, which continued to the laft 

 hour, and a cheerful refignation to his fate, afforded them 

 fome confolation. It was impoflible not to feci a more than 

 common degree of companion for a perfon, whofe life had 

 been a continued fecne of thofe. difficulties and hardships, to 

 which a feaman's occupation is fubjedt, and under which 

 he at laft funk, He was brought up to the Navy from his 



earlieft 



