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THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
The land, except in fome places clofe to the fea, is all of a 
confiderahle height, and hilly; but Mount Edgcumbe far 
out-tops all the other hills. It was wholly covered with 
fnow; as were alfo all the other elevated hills; but the 
lower ones, and the flatter fpots, bordering upon the fea, 
were free from it, and covered with wood. 
As we advanced to the North, we found the coaft from 
Cape Edgcumbe to trend North and North Eafterly for 
fix or feven leagues, and there form a large bay. In the 
entrance of that bay are fome illands; for which reafon I 
named it the Bay of IJlands. It lies in the latitude of 57 0 20'*; 
and feemed to branch into feveral arms, one of which turned 
to the South, and may probably communicate with the bay 
on the Eaft fide of Cape Edgcumbe, and make the land of 
that Cape an ifland. At eight o’clock in the evening, the 
Cape bore South Eaft, half South; the Bay of Illands North, 
53 0 Eaft; and another inlet, before which are alfo fome 
illands, bore North, 52 0 Eaft, five leagues diftant. I conti¬ 
nued to fleer North North Weft, half Weft, and North Weft 
by Weft, as the coaft trended, with a fine gale at North Eaft, 
and clear weather. 
At half an hoftr paft four in the morning, on the 3d, 
Mount Edgcumbe bore South, 54°Eaft; a large inlet, North, 
50° Eaft, diftant fix leagues; and the moft advanced point of 
the land, to the North Weft, lying under a very high peaked 
mountain, which obtained the name of Mount Fair Wea¬ 
ther , bore North, 32 0 Weft. The inlet was named Crofs 
Sound , as being firft feen on that day fo marked in our ca- 
* It fliould feem, that in this very bay, the Spaniards, in 1775, found their port which 
they call De los Remedies. The latitude is exactly the fame 5 and their Journal mentions 
its being protected by a long ridge of high ijlands . See Mifcetlanies by the Honourable Dairies 
Barrington, p. 503, 504. 
Vol. II. Y y lendar. 
1778. 
May. 
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Sunday 3. 
