

A VOYAGE TO 



k to a place Co well flickered as Awatfka ; but then it mud be 



obferved, that from the loofe, undiftinguifhing manner, in 

 which navigators have denominated certain fituations of fea 

 and land, with refpect to each other, bays, roads, founds, har- 

 bours, Sec. we have no defined and determinate ideas 

 affixed to thefe words, fufheient to warrant us in chang- 

 ing a popular name, for one that may appear more 

 proper. 



The entrance into this bay, is in 52" 51' North latitude, 

 and 158 48' Eaft longitude, and lies in the bight of another 

 cxteriour bay, formed by Cheepoonfkoi Nofs, to the North, 

 and Cape Gavareea to the South. The former of thefe head- 

 lands bears from the latter North Eaft by North, three quar- 

 ters Eaft, and is diftant thirty- two leagues. The coaft, from 

 Cape Gavareea to the entrance of Awatfka Bay, takes a di- 

 rection nearly North, and is eleven leagues in extent. It 

 confifts of a chain of high, ragged cliffs, with detached 

 rocks frequently lying off them. This coaft, at a diftance, 

 prefents, in many parts, an appearance of bays or inlets, but 

 on a nearer approach, the head lands were found connected 

 by low ground. 



Cheepoonfkoi Nofs bears from the entrance of the bay, 

 Eaft North Eaft a quarter Eaft, and is feventeen leagues dif- 

 tant. On this fide, the fhore is low and flat, with hills 

 riling behind, to a confiderabie height. In the latitude of 

 Cane Gavareea, there is an error or twenty-one miles in the 

 Ruffian charts; its true latitude being 52 21'. 



litis ftriking difference of the land on each fide Awatfka 

 Bay, with their different bearings, are the heft guides ro 

 fleer for it, in coming from the Southward: and, in ap- 

 proaching it from the Northward, Cheepoonfkoi Nofs will 



make 



