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A VOYAGE TO 
* 779 • 
O&ober. 
Weilnef. 20. 
from the want of accuracy in determining their real litua- 
tion, and the deli re men naturally feel of propagating new 
difcoveries, he will not be furprized, that the lame caufes 
jfliould produce the fame effects. It is thus that the Jefoian 
lands, which appear, both from the accounts of the Japa- 
nefe, and the earlieft Ruffian traditions, to be no other 
than the Southern Kurile illands, have been fuppofed dif- 
tindl from the latter. The land of De Gama is next on 
record ; and was originally placed nearly in the fame fitua- 
tion with thofe juft mentioned; but was removed, as has 
been already fuggefted, to make room for Staten Illand, 
and the Company’s Land ; and as Jefo, and the Southern- 
moft of the Kuriles, had alfo pofteffion of this fpace, that 
nothing might be loft, they were provided for, the for¬ 
mer a little to the Weft ward, and the latter to the Eaft- 
ward. 
As the illands of Zellany and Kunaffiir, according to the 
Ruffian charts, were ftill to the Southward, we were not 
without hopes of being able to make them, and therefore 
kept our head as much to the Weftward as the wind would 
permit. On the 20th, at noon, we were in latitude 43 0 47V 
and longitude 150° 30"; and fteering Weft by South, with 
a moderate breeze from South Eaft, and probably not more 
than twenty-four leagues to the Eaftward of Zellany, when 
our good fortune again deferted us. For, at three o’clock 
in the afternoon, the wind, veering round to the North 
Weft, began to blow fo ftrong, that we were brought un¬ 
der our forefail and mizen ftay-fail. We had very heavy 
fqualls, and hard rain, during the next twenty-four hours; 
after which, the horizon clearing a little, and the weather 
growing moderate, we were enabled to fet the topfails; but 
the wind, ftill continuing to blow from the North Weft, 
1 baffled 
