.400 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
live bottom. Trial Hues were put over at the last station, taking halibut 
and cod, the former being more plentiful. 
We then ran N. 56° E., 10 miles, and sounded in 59 fathoms, intending 
to take a departure for an offshore line, but the fog having shut in we 
anchored until 9 p. m., when it lifted for a moment and we found that 
Sea Lion Island bore N. 11° E. From this point we ran a line S. 75° 
E., 45 miles, sounding at intervals of about 10 miles, with 61 fathoms 
at the first station, then 43 fathoms, and at the end of the line, 7 miles 
further, 342 fathoms. We ran N. 11° E., II miles, and sounded in 62 
fathoms, thence N. 75° W., 44 miles, to a point S. 75° E. from the north- 
east end of Ugomok, where we located the end of the line by cross- 
bearings. 
The trawl was lowered at No. 2845 in 42 fathoms, coarse black sand, 
about 27 miles from Ugomok, developing a rich fauna, and the trial 
lines being put over cod were found abundantly. A comparison of this 
line with those north and south of it shows a less depth than previ- 
ously found near shore, which seems to indicate a deposit along the 
line from the swift current of Unimak Pass. We found 71 fathoms in 
mid channel at the eastern entrance of the pass, and 63 fathoms S. 26° 
E., 1J miles from Promontory Cape, from which point a line was run 
S. 80° E., 39 miles, the depth increasing to 72 fathoms, 25 miles from 
land, and shoaling to 33 fathoms at the end of the line. A line S. 25° 
W., 15 miles, showed a least depth of 25 fathoms 3 miles from the 
starting point, and 44 at the end. We then stood S. 85° E., in depths 
between 41 and 44 fathoms, and at 7 a. m., July 30, cast the trawl in the 
latter depth, fine gray sand, No. 2846, making a successful haul. The 
trial lines were put over and both cod and halibut taken. 
We were under low speed during the night and early morning, wait- 
ing daylight, to approach reported dangers, the first, Lenard Bock, in 
latitude 54° 00 7 OO 77 N., longitude 163° 12 7 00 7/ W., and Anderson Eock, 
54° 00 7 60 77 N., 162° 47 7 OO 77 W., the latter showing above water. We 
intended passing over the positions given, and supposed we had done 
so until several hours later, when we found that we were about 12 
miles N. 57° E. out of our reckoning. The low speed at which we ran 
all night, and the prevalence of a moderate southerly breeze, probably 
accounts for the unusual effect of current on our positions. At 7:45 a. m. 
we left the above station, and stood S. 7° E., 10 miles, finding bottom 
at 51 and 4G4 fathoms, the latter S. 52° E., 3 miles from the reported 
position of Anderson Eock. We saw no indication of shoal water, but 
that proves nothing, for we were enveloped in so dense a fog that we 
were unable to see more than one-quarter of a mile most of the time, 
and probably not to exceed one-half mile at any time while we were in 
the vicinity. The rock may be in or near the position assigned to it, 
but considering the influence of the current on our course from Promon- 
tory Cape, and the absence of any indication of shoal water in our last 
two soundings, it seems possible that the rock seen by Captain Anderson 
might have been one of the outer rocks on the Sannakh Beefs®, 
