PACIFIC AND BEERING’S STRAIT. 
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The next evening we passed Phnta de los Reyes, and awaited the CHAF. 
return of day off some white cliffs, which, from their being situated so 
near the parallel of 38° N, are in all probability those which induced Sir 
Francis Drake to bestow upon this country the name of New Albion. 
They appear on the eastern side of a bay too exposed to authorize the 
conjecture of Vancouver, that it is the same in which Sir Francis re- 
fitted his vessel. 
