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A VOYAGE TO 
1778. by no means certain, that the bay to which I have given 
i._ M ^ y . kis name ? is the place where he anchored. Nor do I know, 
that what I called Mount St. Elias, is the fame confpicuous 
mountain to which he gave that name. And as to his 
Cape St. Elias, I am entirely at a lofs to pronounce where 
it lies. 
On the North Eaft fide of Cape St. Hermogenes, the 
coaft turned toward the North Weft, and appeared to be 
wholly unconnected with the land feen by us the preced¬ 
ing day. In the chart above mentioned, there is here a 
fpace, where Beering is fuppofed to have feen no land. 
This alfo favoured the later account publifhed by Mr. 
Stsehlin, who makes Cape St. Hermogenes, and all the land 
that Beering difcovered to the South Weft of it, to be a 
clufter of illands ; placing St. Hermogenes amongft thole 
which are deftitute of wood. What we now faw, feemed 
to confirm this ; and every circumftance infpired us with 
hopes of finding here a palfage Northward, without being 
obliged to proceed any farther to the South Weft. 
We were detained off the Cape, by variable light airs 
Monday 25. and calms, till two o’clock the next morning, when a 
breeze fpringingup at North Eaft, we fteered North North 
Weft along the coaft; and foon found the land of Cape 
St. Hermogenes to be an ifland, about fix leagues in cir¬ 
cuit, feparated from the adjacent coaft by a channel one 
league broad. A league and a half to the North of 
this ifland, lie fome rocks, above water; on the North 
Eaft fide of which we had from thirty to twenty fathoms 
water. 
At noon, the ifland of St. Hermogenes bore South half 
Eaft, eight leagues diftant; and the land to the North Weft 
of it, extended from South half Weft to near Weft. In this 
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