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A VOYAGE TO THE 



C H A 

 X. 



1787. 



April. 



Weclnef, 18 



^' but got no bottom. We now had a fucceflion of freflT 

 ■-" gales and thick dirty weather, which caufed us to ply 

 occafionally : as I did not think it prudent, under fuch 

 circumftances, to ftand in for the land. Strong gales, at- 

 tended with thick hazy weather, continued with very little 

 Monday 23. intermiflion till the 23d. On that day at noon, being in 59" 

 11' latitude, and 148" 1 5' longitude, we had foundings in 

 feventy-fix fathoms water, over a muddy bottom, with fmall 

 black fpecks and black ftone; and at two o'clock the land 

 made its appearance through the haze, intirely covered 

 with fnow, bearing from North North Weft to Weft by 

 South, about eight leagues diftant : but foon afterwards 

 the weather grew thick, which prevented me from getting 

 a good fight of the land, fo as to be certain of our exaft 

 lituation. The fog rather difperfing at four o'clock, we 

 again faw the land bearing Weft by South, which at firft I 

 took for the South Weft point of Montague Ifland ; but 

 prefently afterwards land was feen bearing North North 

 Eaft, which I immediately knew to be the point juft 

 mentioned ; and the land bearing to the Weftward to be 

 the land to the Weftward of the paffage into Prince 

 William's Sound. We continued ftanding; on to the North 

 W^eft till feven o'clock, when we wore and ftood to the 

 Eaftward. Juft at this time the weather cleared up, and 

 gave us a good fight of the land, and paflage into the 

 Sound; the middle of which bore North North Eaft, about 

 eight leagues diftant. • 



During the night we ftood to the Eaftward under an 



Tuefday 24. eafy fail, and at daylight the next morning we ftood in 



for the South Weft point of Montague I ftand with a light 



breeze at North Weft, under ail the fail we could make. 



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