and Cape Gavareea to the South. The former of thefe 
head-lands hears from the latter North Eaft by North, three 
quarters Eaft, and is diftant thirty-two leagues. The coaft, 
from Cape Gavareea to the entrance of Awatfka Bay, takes 
a direction nearly North, and is eleven leagues in extent. 
It conftfts of a chain of high, ragged cliffs, with detached 
rocks frequently lying off them. This coaft, at a diftance, 
prefents, in many parts, an appearance of bays or inlets, 
but on a nearer approach, the head-lands were found con¬ 
nected by low ground. 
Cheepoonfkoi Nofs bears from the entrance of the bay, 
Eaft North Eaft a quarter Eaft, - and is twenty-five leagues 
diftant. On this fide, the Ihore is low and flat, with hills 
rifing behind, to a conftderable height. In the latitude of 
Cape Gavareea, there is an error of twenty-one miles in the 
Ruffian charts; its true latitude being 52° 2T. 
This ftriking difference of the land on each fide Awatlka 
Bay, with their different bearings, are the beft guides to 
fleer for it, in coming from the Southward: and, in ap¬ 
proaching it from the Northward, Cheepoonfkoi Nofs will 
make itfelf very confpicuous; for it is a high projecting 
head-land, with a confiderable extent of level ground, lower 
than the Nofs, uniting it to the continent. It prefents the 
fame appearance, whether viewed from the North or South, 
and will warn the mariner not to be deceived, in imagining 
Awatfka Bay to he in the bight, which the coaft forms to 
the Northward of this Nofs; and which might be the cafe, 
from the ftriking refemblance there is between a conical 
hill within this bight or bay, and one to the South of Awat¬ 
fka Bay. 
I have been thus particular, in giving a minute defcrip- 
tion of this coaft, from our own experience of the want of 
