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1778. birds, that are commonly found in other Northern oceans; 
t j ^!' _j fach as gulls, drags, puffins, ffieerwaters; and fometimes 
ducks, geele, and fwans. And feldom a day paded without 
feeing feals, whales, and other large fidi. 
In the afternoon, we got a light breeze of wind Sou¬ 
therly, which enabled us to deer Weft, for the channel that 
appeared between the iflands and the continent; and, at 
Friday 19. day-break next morning, we were at no great diftance from 
it, and found feveral other idands, within thofe already 
feen by us, of various extent both in height and circuit. 
But between thefe laft idands, and thofe before feen, there 
feemed to be a clear channel, for which I fteered, being 
afraid to keep the coaft of the continent aboard, left we 
diould miftake fome point of it for an idand, and, by that 
means, be drawn into fome inlet, and lofe the advantage of 
the fair wind, which at this time blew. 
I therefore kept along the Southernmoft chain of idands ; 
and at noon we were in the latitude of 55 0 18', and in the 
narrowed; part of the channel, formed by them and thofe 
which lie along the continent, where it is about a league 
and a half, or two leagues over. The largeft idand in this 
group was now on our left, and is diftinguiihed by the 
name of Kodiak % according to the information we after¬ 
ward received. I left the reft of them without names. I 
believe them to be the fame that Beering calls Schumagin’s 
Idands t; or thofe idands which he called by that name, to 
be apart of them ; for this group is pretty extendve. We 
faw idands as far to the Southward as an idand could be 
feen. They commence in the longitude of 200° 15' Eaft, 
and extend a degree and a half, or two degrees, to the Weft- 
* See an Account of Kodiak, in Stsehlin’s New Northern Archipelago, p. 30—39, 
f See Muller’s Decouvertes des Ruffes , p, 262—277= 
ward. 
