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A VOYAGE TO 
J779* 
July. 
This Cape is a high round head of land, extending four 
or five miles from North to South, forming a peninfula, and 
connected with the continent by a narrow neck of low land. 
Its fhore is hold, and off its North part are three high, de¬ 
tached, fpiral rocks. At this time it was covered with fnow, 
and the beach furrounded with ice. We were now convin¬ 
ced, that we had been under the influence of a ftrong cur¬ 
rent, fetting to the North, that had caufed an error in our 
latitude at noon of twenty miles. In palling this ftrait the 
laft year, we had experienced the fame effedt. 
Being at length fure of our political, we held on to the 
North by Eaft. At ten at night, the weather becoming clear, 
we had an opportunity of feeing, at the fame moment, the 
remarkable peaked hill, near Cape Prince of Wales, on the 
coaft of America, and the Eaft Cape of Alia, with the two 
connecting iflands of Saint Diomede between them. 
T«efday6„ At noon on the 6th, the latitude, by account, was 67° 
North, and the longitude 191 0 6 ' Eaft. Having already pall¬ 
ed a confiderable number of large mafles of ice, and ob- 
ferved, that it ftill adhered in feveral places to the fhore on 
the continent of Alia, we were not much furprized to fall 
in, at three in the afternoon* with an extenfive body of it, 
ftretching away to the Weft ward. This fight gave great dif- 
couragement to our hopes of advancing much farther 
Northward this year, than we had done the preceding. 
Having little wind in the afternoop, we hoifted out the 
boats in purfuit of the fea-horfes, which were in great 
numbers on the detached pieces of ice ; but they foon re¬ 
turned without fuccefs ; thefe animals being exceedingly 
fhy, and before they could come within gun-lhot, always 
making their retreat into the water. 
At feven in the evening, we hoifted in the boats, and the 
wind 
