A VOYAGE TO 
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1778. 
Auguft. 
Wednef. 12. 
•Thurfday 13. 
Friday 14. 
as far as South 7 5 0 Eafl. The latitude of the fhip was 66° 5 ; 
the longitude 191 0 igf ; our depth of water twenty-eight 
fathoms ; and our pofition nearly in the middle of the 
channel between the two coafls, each being feven leagues 
diftant. 
From this flation we fleered Eaft, in order to get nearer 
the American coafl. In this courfe the water fhoaled gra¬ 
dually, and there being little wind, and all our endeavours 
to increafe our depth failing, I was obliged at lafl to drop 
anchor in fix fathoms; the only remedy we had left to pre¬ 
vent the fhips driving into lefs. The neareft part of the 
Weftern land bore Weft, twelve leagues diftant; the peaked 
hill over Cape Prince of Wales, South 16 0 Weft; and the 
Northernmoft part of the American continent in fight* 
Eaft South Eaft, the neareft part about four leagues diftant. 
After we had anchored, I fent a boat to found, and the 
■water was found to fhoal gradually toward the land. While 
we lay at anchor, which was from fix to nine in the even¬ 
ing, we found little or no current; nor could we perceive 
that the water either rofe or fell. 
A breeze of wind fpringing up at North, we weighed, 
and flood to the Weftward, which courfe foon brought us 
into deep water; and, during the 12th, we plied to the 
North, both coails . being in fight; but we kept neareil 
to that of America. 
At four in the afternoon of the 13th, a breeze fpringing 
up at South, I fleered North Eaft by North, till four o’clock 
next morning, when, feeing no land, we directed our courfe 
Eaft by North ; and between nine and ten, land, fuppofed 
to be a continuation of the continent, appeared. It extend¬ 
ed from Eafl by South to Eaft by North; and, foon after, we 
faw more land, bearing North by Eaft. Coming pretty fud- 
denly 
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