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A VOYAGE TO 
i77 8 - lendar. It appeared to branch in feveral arms, the largeft 
M /‘ . of which turned to the Northward. The South Eaft poiitt 
of this Sound is a high promontory, which obtained the 
name of Crofs Cape. It lies in the latitude of 57 0 57', and its 
• longitude is 223 0 21'. At noon it bore South Eaft; and the 
point under the peaked mountain, which was called Cape 
Fair Weather , North by Weft, a quarter Weft, diftant thir¬ 
teen leagues. Our latitude at this time, was 58° 17*, and our 
longitude 222 0 14/; and we were diftant from the fhore 
three or four leagues. In this fttuation we found the varia¬ 
tion of the compafs to be from 24 0 ii / to 26° n / Eaft. 
Here the North Eaft wind left us, and was fucceeded by 
light breezes from the North Weft, which lafted for feveral 
days. I flood to the South Weft, and Weft South Weft, till 
Monday 4. eight o’clock the next morning, when we tacked, and flood 
toward the fhore. At noon, the latitude was 58° 22', and the 
longitude 220 0 45k Mount Fair Weather, the peaked moun¬ 
tain over the cape of the fame name, bore North, 63° Eaft; 
the fhore under it twelve leagues diftant. This mountain, 
which lies in the latitude of 58° 52', and in the longitude of 
222 0 , and five leagues inland, is the higheft of a chain, or 
rather a ridge, of mountains, that rife at the North Weft 
entrance of Crofs Sound, and extend to the North Weft, 
in a parallel direction with the coaft. Thefe mountains 
were wholly covered with fnow, from the higheft fummit 
down to the fea-coaft; fome few places excepted, where 
we could perceive trees riling, as it were, out of the fea; 
and which, therefore, we fuppofed, grew on low land, or 
on illands bordering upon the fhore of the continent*. 
At 
* According to Muller, Beering fell in with the coaft of North America, in latitude 
58° 2.8' 3 and he defcribes its afpedt thus; “ L’afpeft du pays etoit affrayant par fes hautes 
K moniagnes 
