3 8 ® A VOYAGE TO 
CHAP. VI. 
Progrefs along the Coajl.—Cape Elizabeth.—-Cape St. Her - 
mogenes.—Accounts of Beering's Voyage very defective.— 
Point Banks.—Cape Douglas.—Cape Bede.—Mount St. Au- 
gujlin.—Hopes of finding a Paffage up an Inlet.—Phe Ships 
proceed up it.—Indubitable Marks, of its being a River.— 
Named Cook's River.—Phe Ships return down it.—Various 
Vifits from the Natives.—Lieutenant King lands , and takes 
poffeffion of the Country.—His Report.—Phe Refolution runs 
aground on a Shoal.—Reflections on the Difcovery of Cook's 
River.—Phe confiderable Pides in it accounted for. 
>1778. A FTER leaving Prince William’s Sound, I fleered to 
M^ay. ^ Jf\_ the South Well, with a gentle breeze at North North 
Wednef. 20. Eall; which, at four o’clock, the next morning, was fuc- 
Thurfday ceeded by a calm; and foon after, the calm was fucceeded 
by a breeze from South Weft. This frelhening, and veer¬ 
ing to North Well, we hill continued to hretch to the 
South Weft, and palfed a lofty promontory, lituated in the 
latitude of 59 0 io", and the longitude of 207° 45k As the 
difcovery of it was connedled with the Princefs Elizabeth’s 
birth-day, I named it Cape Elizabeth. Beyond it we could 
fee no land ; fo that, at firft, we were in hopes that it was 
the Weftern extremity of the continent; but not long after, 
we faw our mihake ; for frefh land appeared in light, bear¬ 
ing Well South Well. 
The 
