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waving when brandithed in a moft dreadful manner. I could diftinguifh the Elk, 
the Rein, the Virginian Deer, and the Dog; birds, probably of the'Goofe kind; the 
Whale-fifhery, the Walrus, and the Seal. —With what facility might be reclamed and 
civilized a people fo ftrongly poffeffed with a difpofition towards the liberal arts ! 
From lat. 55. 20, towards the north, the country increafes in height, efpecially 
inland, where a range of very lofty mountains, moftly covered with fnow, is feen. 
nearly parallel with the coaft,. a branch of thofe I have before mentioned. Above 
lat. 56 the coaft is broken into bays and harbours. In this neighborhood Captain 
Tjchirikow, confort to the great navigator Berinc, who was feparated from his 
commander by a ftorm, was fo unfortunate as to touch on an open part of the 
coaft, in about lat. 55, in which he anchored in a moft dangerous fituation, full 
of rocks. Having loft his fhallop, and after that his fmall boat, with part of-his 
crew, which he had fent on fhore to water, and which were deftroyed by the na- 
tives, he was obliged to return from his ineffectual voyage *. A vaft conic moun- 
tain, called by Captain Cook Mount Edgecumbe +,.rifes pre-eminent above all the 
others. This is in lat. 57. 3, long. 224. 7. Not remote from hence is the Bay 
of Iflands, the fame as the Part los Remedios, nearly the ne plus of the Spani/h ex- 
pedition of 1775.. The adventurers comforted themfelves with having reached 
lat. 58, and having attained the higheft latitude ever arrived at in thefe feast. 
This coaft, as well as the reft, continued covered with woods. 
A high peaked. mountain, Mount Fazr-weather, and the inlet Cro/s Sound, next 
appear. ‘The firft is the higheft of a chain of fnowy mountains, which lie inland 
about five leagues, in lat. 58.52. Ihe land between them and the fea was very 
low, for the trees feemed to arife out of the water. Several fea-birds, with a 
black ring round the head ; the tip of the tail, and upper part of the wings, marked 
with black ; the body biuifh above, white beneath, came in view; and on the 
water fat a brownifh Duck, with a deep blue or black head §. 
In lat. 59. 18, is a bay, with a wooded ifle off its fouth point, named by Captain 
Cook, Berine’s; in honor of the illuftrious Dane who firft difcovered this 
part of America, and, as was conjectured, anchored there for a fmall fpace. The 
appearance of the country was terrific ; it confifted of lofty mountains (in Fuly) 
covered with fnow: but the chain is interrupted near this port by a plain of a few 
miles in extent; beyond which the view was unlimited, having behind it a con- 
tinuance of level country, or fome great lake. He had not leifure to make obfer- 
vations ; he only named a cape, which advanced into the fea, Cape Elias ||: this is 
not at prefent known; but the name of Mount Elias was beitowed by Captain 
* Voy.& Decouvertes de Ruffes, i. 250. t+ Coox’s Voy. ii. 344, tab. 86. } Barrington’s 
Mifcel. 507. § Coox’s Voy, ii, 347. || Zay. & Decouvertes, i, 254.—COOK, ii. 347, 383- 
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