THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
477 
Having continued to ply back all night, by day-break the 
next morning we had got into fix fathoms water. At nine 
o’clock, being about a league from the Weft fhore, I took 
two boats, and landed, attended by Mr. King, to feek wood 
and water. We landed where the coaft projects out into a 
bluff head, compofed of perpendicular fir at a of a rock of a 
dark blue colour, mixed with quartz and glimmer. There 
joins to the beach a narrow border of land, now covered 
with long grafs, and where we met with fome angelica . 
Beyond this, the ground rifes abruptly. At the top of this 
elevation, we found a heath, abounding with a variety of 
berries; and further on, the country was level, and thinly 
covered with fmall fpruce trees; and birch and willows no 
bigger than broom fluff. We obferved tracks of deer and 
foxes on the beach; on which alfo lay a great quantity of 
drift-wood; and there was no want of frefh water. I re¬ 
turned on board, with an intention to bring the fhips to an 
anchor here; but the wind then veering to North Eaft, 
which blew rather on this fhore, I ftretched over to the op- 
pofite one, in the expectation of finding wood there alfo, and 
anchored at eight o’clock in the evening, under the South 
end of the Northernmoft ifland: fo we then fuppofed it to 
be; but, next morning, we found it to be a peninfula, unit- Friday u. 
ed to the continent by a low neck of land, on each fide of 
which the coaft forms a bay. We plied into the Southern- 
moft, and about noon anchored in five fathoms water, over 
a bottom of mud; the point of the peninfula, which obtain¬ 
ed the name of Cape Denbigh ^ bearing North 68° Weft, three 
miles diftant. 
Several people were feen upon the peninfula; and one 
man came off in a fmall canoe. I gave him a knife, and a 
few beads, with which he feemed well pieafed. Having 
3 made 
1778. 
September. 
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Thurfday io. 
