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The wind, by this time, had increafed to a very ftrong 1778. 
gale, and forced us to a good diftance from the coaft. In , Mliy ' 
the afternoon of the 22d, the gale abated; and we flood to Friday 22. 
the Northward for Cape Elizabeth; which at noon, the next Saturday 23, 
day, bore Weft, ten leagues diftant. At the fame time, a 
new land was feen, hearing South 77 0 Weft, which was fup- 
pofed to conned! Cape Elizabeth with the land we had feen 
to the Weft ward. 
The wind continued at Weft, and I ftood to the Southward 
till noon the next day, when we were within three leagues Sunday 2^ 
of the coaft which we had difcovered on the 22d. It here 
formed a point that bore Weft North Weft. At the fame 
time more land was feen extending to the Southward, as 
far as South South Weft; the whole being twelve or fifteen 
leagues diftant. On it was feen a ridge of mountains co¬ 
vered with fnow, extending to the North Weft, behind the 
firft land, which we judged to be an ifland, from the very 
inconfiderable quantity of fnow that lay upon it. This 
point of land is fituated in the latitude of 58° 15', and in 
the longitude of 207° 42'; and by what I can gather from, 
the account of Beering’s voyage, and the chart that accom¬ 
panies it in the Englilh edition % I conclude, that it muft 
be what he called Cape St. Hermogenes. But the account 
of that voyage is fo very much abridged* and the chart fo> 
extremely inaccurate, that it is hardly poflible, either by 
the one or by the other, or by comparing both together, 
to find out any one place which that navigator either faw 
or touched at. Were I to form a judgment of Beering’s- 
proceedings on this coaft, I fliould fuppofe that he fell in 
with the continent near Mount Fair-weather. But I aim 
* Captain Cook means Muller’s; of which a tranllation had Been publifhed in Lon¬ 
don feme time before he failed, 
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