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A VOYAGE TO 
CHAP. Ill 
Continuation of Pranfactions in the Harbour of St. Peter a7id 
St. Paul.'—Abundance of Fi/Jj. — Death of a Seaman be¬ 
longing to the Refolution.—Phe Ruffian Hof pit al put under 
the Care of the Ship's Surgeons. — Supply of Flour and 
Cattle. — Celebration of the King's Birth-day . — Difficulties 
in failing out of the Bay.—Eruption of a Volcano.—Steer 
to the Northward.—Cheepoonfkoi Nofs.—Errors of the Ruf¬ 
fian Charts. — KamtfchatfkoiNofs.—Olutorjkoi Nofs. — Pfchu- 
kotfkoi Nofs.—IJland of St. Laurence. — View, from the fame 
Point , of the Coafts of Afia and America, and the Iflands 
of St. Diomede.—Various Attempts to get to the North , be¬ 
tween the two Continents.—ObflruBed by impenetrable Ice. 
■ — Sea-horfes and white Bears killed.—Captain Gierke’s De¬ 
termination, and future Defigns. 
*779- T T A VI N G concluded the laid chapter with an account 
11 of our return from Bolcheretlk, accompanied by 
Major Behm, the Commander of Kamtfchatka, and of his 
departure; I fhall proceed to relate the tranfadtions that 
paffed in the harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul during our 
Friday 7. abfence. On the 7th of May, foon after we had left the 
bay, a large piece of ice drove acrofs the cut-water of the 
Refolution, and brought home the fmall bower anchor. 
This obliged them to weigh the other anchor, and moor 
again. 
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