THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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At five in the afternoon, our latitude being then 58° 53', 1778. 
and our longitude 220 0 52'; the fummit of an elevated 
mountain appeared above the horizon, bearing North, 26' 
Weft; and, as was afterwards found, forty leagues diftant. 
We fuppofed it to be Beering’s Mount St. Elias; and it ftands 
by that name in our chart. 
This day we faw feveral whales, feals, and porpoifes ; 
many gulls, and feveral flocks of birds, which had a 
black ring about the head; the tip of the tail, and upper 
part of the wings, with a black band; and the reft bluifli 
above, and white below. We alfo faw a brownifli duck, 
with a black or deep blue head and neck, fitting upon the 
water. 
Having but light winds, with fome calms, we advanced wednef. 6 . 
flowly; fo that on the 6th at noon, we were only in the 
latitude of 59 0 8", and in the longitude of 220° Mount 
Fair Weather bore South, 63° Eaft, and Mount Elias North, 
30° Weft; the neareft land about eight leagues diftant. In 
the direction of North, 47 0 Eaft from this ftation, there was 
the appearance of a bay, and an ifland oft' the South point, of 
It that was covered with wood. It is here where I fuppofe 
Commodore Beering to have anchored. The latitude, which 
is 59 0 18", correfponds pretty well with the map of his voy¬ 
age % and the longitude is 221 0 Eaft. Behind the bay (which 
I fliall diftinguifh by the name of Beering's Bay, in honour 
of its difcoverer), or rather to the South of it, the chain of 
mountains before mentioned, is interrupted by a plain of a 
“ montagnes couvertes de niege.” The chain, or ridge of mountains, covered with fnow, 
mentioned here by Captain Cook, in the fame latitude, exactly agrees with what Beering 
met with. See Muller’s Voyages et Decouvertes des Ruffes^ p. 248—254. 
■* Probably Captain Cook means Muller’s map, prefixed to his Hiftory of the Ruffian 
Difcoveries. 
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