saint Lawrence’s island. 
mountains, and occasionally declining into a perfectly level suiv 
face. 
On the 1.5th we calculated the latitude at 64° 37', the longi¬ 
tude at 188° IF. The depth was 12 fathoms, and the bottom 
pebbly. In the afternoon the weather clearing up, which had 
been for some time hazy, we discovered to south-west, at a dis¬ 
tance of 17 miles, a mountainous shore, into which the two bays, 
Geljagin and Ketschekeyum, penetrated. According to the ac¬ 
count of the Tschukschens, there were three islands at the mouth 
of the former; but we could distinguish only one of small mag¬ 
nitude, probably owing in part to the mist which was not en¬ 
tirely dispersed, and in part to the nearness of the two first to 
the shore. At seven in the evening we descried to north-west, 
76° a considerable settlement of Tschukschens, and towards 
midnight we were Opposite to the southern point of Tschukotskoi 
JNoi, and lay-to till the morning, in order to examine it more 
narrowly. 
On the lfith a violent wind and heavy mist arising, we found it 
necessary to continue lving-to, and remained till the 18th off the 
shore of the above-mentioned bay, in the constant expectation 
of clearer weather; but no change taking place, we resolved on 
steering for the island of St. Matthew, in order to recruit our 
almost exhausted stock of wood from the floating logs that pass 
that shore in great quantities. 
On the 19th the wind changed, becoming first southerly, and 
afterwards south-easterly; the mist likewise dispersed, and 
opened to our view the island of Clark, or St. Lawrence, called 
by the Tschukschens Eumugjen. The Tschukschens pass over to 
it in their baidars, in order to exchange their baidars and large 
whale-bone with the Russians for various trifles. At noon we 
observed the latitude to be at 63 0 2 3\ the longitude 136° 3Q'. 
When we first came to an anchor off this island, we fancied 
we saw r through the mist two small islands, which must have 
been only mist; for after the most diligent search in clear w^ea- 
Jther, 1 could discover nothing. 1 should conceive some of Lieu¬ 
tenant Sinde’s islands to have been of a similar nature; and it is 
most probable for Captain Cook to have been in like manner 
mislead, for Anderson’s island, another lying to the north of 
Clarke’s, were not to he found in the places assigned them, al¬ 
though we examined the different parts in perfectly clear weather. 
In the afternoon we approached St. Lawrences island, the 
first and most conspicuous part of which, its north-eastern pro¬ 
montory, appeared to be a small distinct island, until, on a nearer 
survey, we found it united with the former by a plain. The 
English mariners are of opinion that this is the cape to which 
Commodore Behring gave the name of St. Lawrence; but X 
