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THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
The canoes of thefe people are of the fame fort with 1778. 
thofe of the Northern Americans ; fome, both of the large .__ Au ^ uft ‘ 
and of the fmall ones, being feen lying in a creek under the 
village. 
By the large fhh-bones, and of other fea-animals, it 
appeared that the fea fupplied them with the greateft 
part of their fubfiftence. The country appeared to be 
exceedingly barren; yielding neither tree nor fhrub, that 
we could fee. At fome diftance Weft ward, we obferved a 
ridge of mountains covered with fnow, that had lately 
fallen. 
At firft, w r e fuppofed this land to be a part of the iiland of 
Alafchka, laid down in Mr. Staehlin’s map before mention¬ 
ed. But from the figure of the coaft, the fituation of the 
oppofite fhore of America, and from the longitude, we foon 
began to think that it was, more probably, the country of 
the Tfchutfki, or the Eaftern extremity of Alia, explored 
by Beering in 1728. But to have admitted this, without 
farther examination, I muft have pronounced Mr. Stsehlin’s 
map, and his account of the new Northern Archipelago, 
to be either exceedingly erroneous, even in latitude, or elfe 
to be a mere ficftion ; a judgment which I had no right to 
pafs upon a publication fo refpectably vouched, without 
producing the cleared: proofs. 
After a ftay of between two and three hours, with thefe 
people, we returned to our fhips; and, foon after, the wind 
veering to the South, we weighed anchor, flood out of the 
bay, and fleered to the North Eaft, between the coaft and the 
two illands. The next day, at noon, the former extended Tuefdayu. 
from South 8o° Weft, to North 84° Weft; the latter bore 
South 40° Weft; and the peaked mountain, over Cape Prince 
of Wales, bore South 36° Eaft; v r ith land extending from it 
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