Wednef. 22.
Thurfday.23.
Friday 24.
Saturday 25.
Sunday 26.
than in any I had before met with. Our boats returning
from founding feemed to alarm them ; fo that the y all left
us fooner than probably the y would otherwife have done.
It was the 22d in the evening before we got clear o f thefe
fhoals, and then I durft not venture to fleer to the Weftward
in the night, but fpent it o ff Cape Newenham ; and at daybreak,
next morning, fleered to the North Weil, ordering
the Difcovery to lead. Before we had run two leagues, our
depth o f water decreafed to fix fathoms. Fearing, i f we
continued this courfe, that we fhould find lefs and lefs
water, I hauled to the Southward ; the wind being at Eafl,
a frefh breeze. T his courfe brought us grad ually into
eighteen fathoms, and, h a vin g that depth, I ventured to
fleer a little W e ile r ly; and afterward Weft, when w e at lafl
found twenty-fix fathoms water.
On the 24th at noon we were, b y obfervation, in the latitude
o f 38° 7', and in the longitude o f 194° 22'. Three
leagues to the Weftward o f this ftation we had twenty-eight
fathoms water, and then fleered Weft North Weil, the water
grad ually deepening to thirty-four fathoms. I would have
fleered more Northerly, but the wind having veered in that
diredion, I could not.
T he 25th in the evening, having a very thick fog, and but
little wind, we dropped anchor in thirty fathoms water.
Our latitude was now 58° 29', and our longitude 191° 37'.
At fix, the next morning, the weather clearing up a little,
we weighed, and, with a fmall breeze at Eafl, fleered North;
our foundings being from twenty-eight to twenty-five fa thoms.
After running nine leagues upon this courfe, ■ the
wind returned back to the North, w hich obliged us to fleer
more Weilerly.
T he weather continued, for the moft part, fo g g y , till to- »778-
ward noon on the a8th, when we had a few hours clear 1— ■J
fu n -fh in e ; d u r in g w hich we made feveral lunar obferva- Tuefday 2i'
tions. T h e mean refult o f them, reduced to noon, when
the latitude was 39* 55', gave 190“ 6' long itude; and the
time-keeper gave 183*39'. T h e variation o f the compafs
was 18° 40' Eafl. Continuing our Weilerly courfe, the water
ha vin g now deepened to thirty-fix fathoms, at four o ’clock
next morning, we difeovered land, bearing North Weil b y Wednef. zg t
Weft, fix leagues diftant. We flood toward it till h a lf pail
ten, when w e tacked in twenty-four fathoms water ; being,,
at this time, a leagu e from the land, which bore North
North Weft. It was the South Eafl extremity, and formed
a perpendicular c liff o f confiderable h e ig h t ; on which a c count
it was called Point Upright, and lies in the latitude o f
60° 17', and in the longitude o f 187° 30'. More land was
feen to the Weftward o f the P o in t; and, at a clear interval;
w e faw another elevated portion o f land, in the diredion o f
Weft by South; and this Teemed to be entirely feparated
from the other- Here we met with an incredible number
o f birds, all as the awk k in d before defcribed.
We had baffling ligh t winds all the afternoon, fo that
we made but little progrefs ; and the weather was not clear
enough to enable us to determine the extent o f the land before
us. We fuppofed it to be one o f the many iflands laid,
down by Mr. Stsehlin in his map o f the New Northern Archipelago;
and we expeded every moment to fee more o f
them.
At four in the afternoon o f the 30th, Point Upright bore Tlmrfife«*
North Weil by North, fix leagues diftant. About this time,
a ligh t breeze fpringing up at North North Weil, we flood
to the North Eafl till four o ’clock next morning, when the
w ind