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In failing along the coaft we took indefatigable pains to obferve 

 with precinon how it lay, from which innumerable objections 

 offered themfelves to M. Bellin's Charts. 



This engineer hath chiefly founded himfelf upon the tracks of 

 two Ruffian Navigators, Beering and Tfchirikow, who were fent 

 upon difcoveries in 1741. It is evident however that the Ruffian 

 maps are not to be depended upon, for if they had been tolerably 

 accurate we mould have fallen in with the land to the Weftward, 

 more eafily than to the Eaft °. 



Bellin is not lefs erroneous in laying down the American coafr-, 

 and indeed it is not at all extraordinary that his errors mould be 

 fo numerous, as he had no materials for his charts, but his 

 own fruitful imagination ; no navigator having vifited many 

 parts of the American continent in thefe high latitudes but 

 ourfelves. 



We now attempted to find out the ftraits? of Admiral Fonte-, 

 though as yet we had not difcovered the Archipelago of S. Lazar 

 rus, through which he is faid to have failed. 



With this intent we fearched every bay and recefs of the coafti, 

 and failed round every headland, lying to- during the night, that 

 we might not lofe light of this entrance ;- after thefe pains 

 taken, and being favoured by a N. W. wind% k may be pro* 

 nounced that no fuch {traits are to be found. 



On the 24th at 2 in the evening, and being in 55. 17 N. Lat. 

 we doubled a cape, and entered into a large bay, difcovering to 



0 The journalift feems to fpeak here with regard to the then fituation 

 of the fchooner Other objections follow to Bellin's map, which cannot 

 be comprehended without having the chart before one. 



p Entrada, or entrance into them rather. In a map which I have pro- 

 cured, this entrance is laid down in N. Lat. 48. and faid to have been 

 difcovered by Juande Fuca in 1592. 



1 It muft now be recollected that the fchooner is returning to S. Bias.. 



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