A VOYAGE TO 
39° 
JI 7 , 9 ‘, n ight, on trying for foundings., we found no ground with 
v '—'g forty-five fathoms of line. 
Sunday 17. On the 17th, at noon, we were in latitude 45 0 by 
obfervation, longitude 154 o « The wind now again com¬ 
ing to the Weftward, obliged us to fleer a more Southerly 
courfe; and, at midnight, it blew from that quarter a frefli 
gale, accompanied with heavy rain. In the morning, we 
faw another land-bird, and many flocks of gulls and pe- 
terels bending their courfe to the South Weft. The heavy 
North Eaft iwell, with which we had conftantly labour¬ 
ed fince our departure from Lopatka, now ceafed, and 
changed fuddenly to the South Eaft. In the forenoon of 
Monday 18. the 18th, we pafled great quantities of rock-weed, from 
which, and the flights of birds above mentioned, we con¬ 
jectured we were at no great diftance from the Southern- 
moft of the Kuriles; and, at the fame time, the wind com¬ 
ing round to the South, enabled us to Hand in for it. At two, 
we fet ftudding-fails, and fleered Weft; but the wind in- 
creafing to a gale, foon obliged us to double reef the top- 
fails; and, at midnight, we judged it neceflary to try for 
foundings. Accordingly we hove to; but, finding no bot¬ 
tom at feventy-five fathoms, we were encouraged to per- 
fevere, and again bore away Weft, with the wind at South 
Tuefday x 9 . Eaft. This courfe we kept till two in the morning, when 
the weather becoming thick, we hauled our wind, and 
fleered to the South Weft till five, when a violent ftorm 
reduced us to our courfes. 
Notwithflanding the unfavourable ftate of the weather 
left us little profpeCt of making the land, we ftill kept this 
objeCt anxioufly in view; and, at day-light, ventured to 
fleer Weft by South, and continued to Hand on in this di¬ 
rection till ten in the forenoon, when the wind, fuddenly 
fhifting 
