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1778. commendationSoon after he had breathed his laid, land 
was feen to the Weft ward, twelve leagues diftant. It was 
fuppofed to be an illand; and, to perpetuate the memory of 
the deceafed, for whom I had a vei'y great regard, I named 
it AnderforCs Ifland. The next day, I removed Mr. Law, the 
furgeon of the Difcovery, into the Refolution, and ap¬ 
pointed Mr. Samuel, the Surgeon’s firft mate of the Refo¬ 
lution, to be Surgeon of the Difcovery. 
Tuefday 4. On the 4th, at three in the afternoon, land was feen, ex¬ 
tending from North North Eaft to North Weft. We flood 
on toward it till four o’clock, when, being four or five miles 
from it, we tacked; and, foon after, the wind falling, we 
anchored in thirteen fathoms water, over a fandy bottom; 
being about two leagues from the land, and, by our 
reckoning, in the latitude of 64° 27', and in the longitude 
of 194 0 iB'. At intervals, we could fee the coalt extending 
from Eaft to North Weft, and a pretty high ifland, bearing 
Weft by North, three leagues diftant. 
The land before us, which we fuppofed to be the conti¬ 
nent of America, appeared low next the fea; but, inland, it 
fwelled into hills, which rife, one behind another, to a con- 
fiderable height. It had a greenifh hue, but feemed defti- 
tute of wood, and free from fnow. While we lay at an¬ 
chor, we found that the flood-tide came from the Eaft, and 
fet to the Weft, till between ten and eleven o’clock. From 
that time, till two the next morning, the ftream fet to the 
Eaftward, and the water fell three feet. The flood ran both 
ftronger and longer than the ebb ; from which I concluded, 
that, beftdes the tide, there was a Wefterly current. 
* Mr. Anderfon’s Journal feems to have been difcontinued for about two months be¬ 
fore bis death j the laft date in his MSS. being of the 3d of June. 
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