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CHAPTER VII. 



FROM KAMTSCHATKA TO THE NEWLY-DISCOVERED 

 KOTZEBUe's SOUND, BEYOND BEERING's STRAITS. 



June 20th. At nine o'clock in the morning we 

 descried Beering*s Island ; this high, rocky land, 

 covered with snow, affords a most ungenial pros- 

 pect, and strongly called to my mind our re- 

 nowned, but unfortunate, navigator, Beering, who 

 found his grave here. We sailed at a little dis- 

 tance from the shore, along the southern part of 

 the island, and afterwards doubled its north- 

 ern point. On the S.W. side is a small rocky 

 island, which, as yet, has never been marked 

 on any chart. An excellent observation of both 

 the latitude and the longitude, gave us for the 

 northern point, latitude 55° 22' 17'', longitude, by 

 the chronometers, 194° 4' 7''. The S.W. point, 

 latitude 55° IT 18'', longitude 194° 67' 3'\ 

 On leaving Beering's Island, I directed my 

 course to tlie western part of St. Lawrence Island. 



June 26: latitude 63° 0', longitude 171° 43''. 

 Being favoured by a very good wind, we made 

 rapid progress ; but the fine weather left us 

 as soon as we had lost sight of Beering's Island, 

 and a thick fog, with an incessant drizzling rain, 

 were now our constant attendants. 



As we had made no observations since we left 



