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A VOYAGE TO 
1779. 
July- 
Thurfday 1. 
Saturday 3. 
On the 1 ft of July at noon, Mr. Bligh having moored a 
fmall keg with the deep-fea lead, in feventy-five fathoms, 
found the ftiip made a courfe North by Eaft, half a mile an 
hour. This he attributed to the effect of a long Southerly 
fwell, and not to that of any current. The wind frelhen- 
ing from the South Eaft toward evening, we fhaped our 
courfe to the North Eaft by Eaft, for the point called in 
Beering’s chart, Tfchukotfkoi Nofs, which we had obferved 
on the 4th of September laft year, at the fame time that we 
faw, to the South Eaft, the ifland of Saint Laurence. This 
Cape, and Saint Thadeus’s Nofs, form the North Eaft and 
South Weft extremities of the large and deep Gulph of 
Anadir, into the bottom of which the river of that name 
empties itfelf, dividing, as it paftTes, the country of the 
Koriacs from that of the Tfchutfki. 
On the 3d at noon, the latitude, by obfervation, was 63° 
33', and the longitude i 86°45°; half an hour after which 
we got fight of the Tfchukotfkoi Nofs, bearing North half 
Weft, thirteen or fourteen leagues diftant, and at five in the 
afternoon faw the ifland of Saint Laurence, bearing Eaft 
three-quarters North; and another ifland a little to the 
Eaftward of it, which we fuppofed to be between Saint Lau¬ 
rence and Anderfon’s Ifland, about fix leagues Eaft South 
Eaft of the former. As we had no certain accounts of this 
ifland, Captain Clerke was defirous of a nearer profpecft, 
and immediately hauled the wind toward it; but, unfortu¬ 
nately, we were not able to weather the ifland of Saint Lau¬ 
rence, and were therefore under the neceflity of bearing 
up again, and palling them all to the leeward. 
We had a better opportunity of fettling the longitude of 
the ifland Saint Laurence, when we laft faw it, than now. 
But feeing it at that time but once, and to the Southward, 
• we 
