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A VOYAGE TO 
1778, tending from North North Eaft to Eaft, or Eaft by South* 
about twelve or fourteen leagues diftant. An hour after, I 
Saturday 2. fleered North by Weft ; and at four the next morning, the 
coaft was feen from North by Weft to South Eaft, the 
neareft part about fix leagues diftant 
At this time the Northern point of an inlet, or what ap¬ 
peared to be one, bore Eaft by South. It lies in the latitude 
of 56°; and from it to the Northward, the coaft feemed to 
be much broken, forming bays and harbours every two or 
three leagues ; or elle appearances much deceived us. At 
fix o’clock, drawing nearer the land, I fteered North Weft 
by North, this being the direction of the coaft; having a 
frefli gale at South Eaft, with fome fhowers of hail, fhow 
and fleet. Between eleven and twelve o’clock, we pafled a 
group of fmall iflands lying under the main land, in the 
latitude of 56° 48'; and off, or rather to the Northward of, 
the South point of a large bay. An arm of this bay, in the 
Northern part of it, feemed to extend in toward the North, 
behind a round elevated mountain that lies between it and 
the fea. This mountain I called Mount Edgcumbe ; and 
the point of land that fhoots out from it, Cape Edgcumbe. 
The latter lies in the latitude of 57 0 3', and in the longitude 
of 224 0 7'; and, at noon, it bore North 20° Weft, fix leagues 
diftant. 
* This muft be very near that part of the American coaft, where Tfcherikow an¬ 
chored in 1741. For Muller places its latitude in 56°. Had this Ruffian navigator 
been fo fortunate as to proceed a little farther Northward along the coaft, he would 
have found, as we now learn from Captain Cook, bays, and harbours, and iflands, 
where his fhip might have been (heltered, and his people protected in landing. For the 
particulars of the misfortunes he met with here, two boats crews, which he fent afhore, 
having never returned, probably cut off by the natives, fee Muller's Deccuvertes de Ruffes, 
p. 248, 254. The Spaniards, in 1775, found two good harbours on this part of the 
coaft; that called Guadalupe , in latitude 57 0 1i 7 , and the other, De hs Remedies, in lati¬ 
tude 57 0 18 7 , 
The 
