THE PACIFIC OCEAN, 
tnde, by obfervation, was 6i° 56', and longitude 175 0 43', 
and the variation of the compafs 17 0 30' Eaft. 
We continued, during the afternoon, to run along the 
fhore, at the diftance of four or five leagues, with a mode¬ 
rate Wefterly breeze, carrying regular foundings from 
twenty-eight to thirty-fix fathoms. The coaft prefented the 
fame barren afpecft as to the Southward; the hills rifing 
confiderably inland, but to what height, the clouds on their 
tops put it out of our power to determine. At eight in the 
evening, land was thought to have been feen to the Eaft by 
North, on which we fteered to the Southward of Eaft; but 
it turned out to be only a fog bank. At midnight, the ex¬ 
treme point bearing North Eaft a quarter Eaft, we fuppofed 
it to be Saint Thadeus’s Nofs ; to the Southward of which, 
the land trends to the Weft ward, and forms a deep bight, 
wherein, according to the Ruflian charts, lies the river 
Katirlca. 
On the 29th, the weather was unfettled and variable, 
with the wind from the North Eaft. At noon of the 30th, 
our latitude, by obfervation, was 6i° 48", and longitude 
180 0 o 7 ; at which time Saint Thadeus’s Nofs bore North 
North Weft, twenty-three leagues diftant, and beyond it 
we obferved the coaft ftretching almoft directly North. The 
moft Eafterly point of the Nofs is in latitude 62° 50', and 
longitude 179 0 o 7 , being 3 |° more to the Eaft, than what the 
Ruffians make it. The land about it muft be of a confider- 
able height from its being feen at fo great a diftance. Dur¬ 
ing the two laft days, we faw numbers of whales, large feals, 
and fea-horfes ; alfo gulls, fea-parrots, and albatrofles. We 
took the advantage of a little calm weather to try for fifh, 
and caught abundance of fine cod. The depth of water 
from fixty-five to feventy-five fathoms, 
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June. 
Tuefday 29. 
Wednef. 30. 
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