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CHAP, shaped cliff at the north-western point of the island, the soundings 
again deepened, and changed to sand as at first. 
At night the fog cleared away for a short time, and we saw the 
Asiatic coast about Tschukutskoi Noss ; but it soon returned, and with it 
a light air in the contrary direction to our course. The next day, as we 
could make no progress, the trawl was put overboard, in the hope of 
providing a fresh meal for the ship’s company; but after remaining 
down a considerable time, it came up with only a sculpen (coitus scor- 
pius), a few specimens of moluscae, and crustaceae, consisting principally 
of maias. In the evening. Lieutenant Peard was more successful in 
procuring specimens with the dredge, which supplied us with a great 
variety of invertebral animals, consisting of asterias, holothurias, echini, 
amphitrites, ascidias, actinias, euryales, murex, chiton crinitus, nereides, 
maias, gammarus, and pagurus, the latter inhabiting chiefly old shells 
of the murex genus. This was in seventeen fathoms over a muddy 
bottom, several leagues from the island. 
About noon the fog dispersed, and we saw nearly the whole extent 
of the St. Lawrence Island, from the N. W. cape we had rounded the 
preceding night to the point near which Cook reached close in with, 
after his departure from Norton Sound. The middle of this island was 
so low, that to us it appeared to be divided, and I concluded, as both 
Cook and Clerke had done before, that it was so ; circumstances did not, 
however, admit of my making this examination, and the connexion of 
the two islands was left for the discovery of Captain SchismarefF of the 
Eussian navy. The hills situated upon the eastern part of the island, 
to which Cook gave the name of his companion Captain Clerke, are 
the highest part of St. Lawrence Island, and were at this time deeply 
buried in snow. 
The current off here, on one trial, ran N. E. five-eighths of a mile 
per hour, and on another, N. 60° E. seven-eighths of a mile per hour : 
as observations on this interesting subject were repeatedly made, they 
will be classed in a table in the Appendix. 
Favoured with a fair wind, on the 19th we saw King’s Island, 
which, though small, is high and rugged, and has low land at its base, 
with apparently breakers off its south extreme. 
