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A VOYAGE TO 
1778. The weather continued, for the moft part, foggy, till to- 
, ward noon on the 28th, when we had a few hours clear 
Tuefday 28. fun-fhine; during which we made feveral lunar obferva- 
tions. The mean refult of them, reduced to noon, when 
the latitude was 59 0 55', gave 190° 6' longitude ; and the 
time-keeper gave 189° 59k The variation of the compafs 
was 18° 40" Eaft. Continuing our Wefterly courfe, the wa¬ 
ter having now deepened to thirty-fix fathoms, at four 
Wednef. 29. o’clock next morning we difcovered land, bearing North 
Weft by Weft, fix leagues diftant. We ftood toward it 
till half paft ten, when we tacked in twenty-four fathoms 
water; being, at this time, a league from the land, which 
bore North North Weft. It was the South Eaft extremity, 
and formed a perpendicular cliff of conftderable height; 
on which account it was called Point Upright , and lies in 
the latitude of 6o° 17', and in the longitude of 187° 30". 
More land was feen to the Weft ward of the Point; and, at 
a clear interval, we faw another elevated portion of land, 
in the direction of Weft by South; and this feemed to be 
entirely feparated from'the other. Here we met with an 
incredible number of birds, all of the awk kind before de¬ 
fer ibed. 
We had baffling light winds all the afternoon, fo that 
we made but little progrefs; and the weather w'as not clear 
enough to enable us to determine the extent of the land be¬ 
fore us. We fuppofed it to be one of the many illands laid 
down by Mr. Stsehlin in his map of the New Northern Ar¬ 
chipelago ; and we expedited every moment to fee more of 
them. 
Thurfday 3 o. At four in the afternoon of the 30th, Point Upright bore 
North Weft by North, fix leagues diftant. About this 
time, a light breeze fpringing up at North North Weft, 
we 
