THE.PACIFIC OCEAN. 4x1 
the continent, extended from South 26° Weft, to South 1778. 
$2° Weft. . J " n _ e - . 
It was calm great part of the 18th; and the weather Thurfday *8. 
was clear and pleafant. We availed ourfelves of this, by- 
making ohfervations for the longitude and variation. The 
latter was found to be 21 0 27' Eaft. There can be no doubt 
that there is a continuation of the continent between Tri¬ 
nity Ill and and Foggy Cape, which the thick weather pre¬ 
vented us from feeing. For fome diftance to the South 
Weft of that Cape, this country is more broken or rugged 
than any part we had yet feen, both with refpedt to the 
hills themfelves, and to the coaft, which feemed full of 
creeks, or fmall inlets, none of which appeared to be of 
any great depth. Perhaps, upon a clofer examination, 
fome of the proje£ting points between thefe inlets will be 
found to be iflands. Every part had a very barren afpetft; 
and was covered with fnow, from the fummits of the 
higheft hills, down to a very fmall diftance from the fea- 
coaft. 
Having occafion to fend a boat on board the Difcovery, 
one of the people in her lliot a very beautiful bird of the 
awk kind. It is fomewhat lefs than a duck, and of a black 
colour, except the fore-part of the head, which is white; 
and from above and behind each eye arifes an elegant yel- 
lowifti-white creft, revolved backward as a ram’s horn. The 
bill and feet are red. It is, perhaps, the alca monochroa of 
Steller, mentioned in the Hiftory of Kamtfchatka *. I think 
the firft of thefe birds was feen by us, a little to the South¬ 
ward of Cape St. Hermogenes. From that time, we gene¬ 
rally faw fome of them every day ; and fometimes in large 
flocks. Beftdes thefe, we daily faw mo ft of the other fea- 
* E I 53 - E n g* Tfanf,—-The Tufted Auk. Pennant's Arct, Zool. ii. N° 432. 
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