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1779. As the coaft runs in an even direction, we were at a 
. great lofs where to place Kamtfchatlkoi Nofs, which, ac¬ 
cording to Muller, forms a projecting point about the 
middle of the peninfula, and which certainly does not 
exift; hut I have iince found, that, in the general map 
publifhed by the Academy of Peterfburg in 1776, that 
name is given to the Southern cape. This was found, by 
feveral accurate obfervations, to be in latitude 56° 3', longi¬ 
tude 163° 20 / ; the difference in longitude, from the Ruffian 
charts, being the fame as at Kronotfkoi Nofs. The va¬ 
riation of the compafs at this time was io° Eaft. To the 
Southward of this peninfula the great river Kamtfchatka 
falls into the-fea. 
As the feafon was too far advanced to admit of our mak¬ 
ing an accurate furvey of the coaft of Kamtfchatka, it was 
Captain Clerke’s plan, in our run to Beering’s Strait, to de¬ 
termine principally the pofitions of the projecting points of 
the coaft. We therefore directed our courfe acrofs an ex- 
tenlive bay, laid down between Kamtfchatfkoi Nofs and 
Olutorfkoi Nofs, intending to make the latter; which, ac¬ 
cording to the Ruffian geographers, terminates the penin¬ 
fula called Kamtfchatka, and becomes the Southern boun¬ 
dary of the Koriaki country. 
Tuefday 22. On the 22d, we patTed a dead whale, which emitted a 
horrid ftench, perceivable at upward of a league’s diftance; 
it was covered with a great number of fea-birds, that were 
feailing on it. 
Thurfday 24. On the 24th, the wind, which had varied round the com¬ 
pafs the three preceding days, fixed at South Weft, and 
brought clear weather, with which we continued our courfe 
to the North Eaft by North, acrofs the bay, without any land 
in light. 
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