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we could only determine its latitude fo far as we could 
judge of diflances ; whereas now the noon obfervations en¬ 
abled us to afcertain it correCtly, which is 63° 47'. Its lon¬ 
gitude was found to be 188 0 15^ as before. This ifland, if 
its boundaries were at this time within our view, is about 
three leagues In circuit. The North part may be feen at 
the diftance of ten or twelve leagues ; but as it falls in low 
land to the South Eaft, the extent of which we could not 
fee, fome of us conjectured, that it might probably be 
joined to the land to the Eaft ward of it; this, however, the 
hazinefs of the weather prevented our afcertaining. Thefe 
iflands, as well as the land about the Tfchukotfkoi Nofs, 
were covered with fnow, and prefented us with a moft 
dreary picture. At midnight, Saint Laurence bore South 
South Eaft, five or fix miles diftant; and our depth of water 
was eighteen fathoms. We were accompanied by various 
kinds of fea fowl, and faw feveral fmall crefted awks. 
The weather ftill continuing to thicken, we loft all fight 
of land till the 5th, when it appeared both to the North 
Eaft and North Weft. Our latitude, by account, was, at this 
time, 65° 24', longitude 189° 14'. As the illands of Saint 
Diomede, which lie between the two continents in Beer¬ 
ing’s ftrait, were determined by us laft year to be in latitude 
65° 48', we could not reconcile the land to the North Eaft, 
with the fituation of thefe iflands. We therefore flood to¬ 
Monday 5-, 
ward the land till three in the afternoon, when we were 
within four miles of it, and finding it to be two iflands, 
were pretty well fatisfied of their being the fame ; but the 
weather ftill continuing hazy, to make fure of our fitua¬ 
tion, we flood over to the coaft of Afia, till feven in the 
evening; at which time we were within two or three 
leagues of the Eaft Cape of that continent. 
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