THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
49*. 
the fame wind, clear weather. Might not this be occa- 
honed by the mountains to the North of that place at¬ 
tracting the vapours, and hindering them to proceed any 
farther ? 
At day-break in the morning of the 23d, the land above 
mentioned appeared in light, bearing South Weft, fix or 
feven leagues diftant. From this point of view, it refembled 
a group of iflands; but it proved to be but one, of thirty 
miles in extent, in the direction of North Weft and South 
Eaft; the South Eaft end being Cape Upright, already taken 
notice of. The illand is but narrow; efpecially at the low 
necks of land that connect the hills. I afterward found,, 
that it was wholly unknown to the Ruffians; and there¬ 
fore, confidering it as a difcovery of our own, I named it 
Gore's IJland. It appeared to be barren, and without inha¬ 
bitants ; at leaft we faw none. Nor did we fee fo many 
birds about it, as when we firft difcovered it. But we faw 
fome fea-otters; an animal which we had not met with to 
the North of this latitude. Four leagues from Cape Up¬ 
right, in the direction of South, 72 0 Weft, lies a fmall ifland, 
whofe elevated fummit terminates in feveral pinnacle rocks. 
On this account it was named Pinnacle IJland. At two in 
the afternoon, after paffing Cape Upright, I fleered South 
Eaft by South, for Samganoodha, with a gentle breeze at 
North North Weft, being refolved to fpend no more time 
in fearching for a harbour amongft iflands, which I now 
began to fufpecft had no exiftence; at leaft, not in the 
latitude and longitude where modern map-makers have 
thought proper to place them. In the evening of the 24th, 
the wind veered to South Weft and South, and increafed to 
a frefh gale. 
We continued to ftretch to the Eaft ward, till eight o’clock 
3 h 2, in 
1778. 
September 
e— -v —J 
Wednef. 25. 
Thurfday 24, 
