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A VOYAGE TO 



«77?- fame effects. It is thus that the Jefoian lands, which ap- 

 i, L -°- er 'j. pear, both from the accounts of the Japanefe, and the 

 earlieft Ruffian traditions, to be no other than the Southern 

 Kurile iflands, have been fuppofed diftinct from the latter. 

 The land of De Gama is next on record ; and was origi- 

 nally placed nearly in the fame fituation with thofe juft 

 mentioned ; but was removed, as has been already fuggeft- 

 ed, to make room for Staten Ifland, and the Company's 

 Land j and as Jefo, and the Southernmost of the Kuriles, had 

 alfo pofleffion of this fpace, that nothing might be loft, they 

 were provided for, the former a little to the Weftward, and 

 the latter to the Eaftward. 



As the iflands of Zellany and Kunafhir, according to the 

 Ruffian charts, were flill to the Southward, we were not 

 without hopes of being able to make them, and therefore 

 kept our head as much to the Weftward as the wind would 

 weJnef. 2c. permit. On the 20th, at noon, we were in latitude 43 47', 

 and longitude 150° 30'; and, (leering Weft by South, with a 

 moderate breeze from South Eaft, and probably not more 

 than twenty-four leagues to the Eaftward of Zellany, when 

 our good fortune again deferted us. For, at three o'clock 

 in the afternoon, the wind veering round to the North 

 Weil, began to blow fo ftrong, that we were brought under 

 our forefail and mizen day-fail. We had very heavy 

 {quails, and hard rain during the next twenty-four hours , 

 after which, the horizon clearing a little, and the weather 

 rowing moderate, we were enabled to fet the topfails ; 

 but the wind, ftill continuing to blow from the North Weil, 

 baffled all our endeavours to make the land, and obliged us, 

 at laft, to give up all further thoughts of difcovery to the 

 North of Japan. We fubmitted to this difappointment with 

 the greater reluctance, as the accounts that arc given of the 



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