»77®- wind veering to the Eaftward, we tacked,- and flood to the Jol-y. .
< v ' North Weft. Soon after the wind came to South Eaft ; and
w e fleered North Eaft by North; w hich courfe we continued,
with foundings from thirty-five to twenty fathoms,
Auguft. till next day at noon. At this time we were in the latitude
Saturday.a, .>: " . ' ' ,
o f 6o° 58', and in the longitude o f 191°. T h e wind now
veering to North Eaft, I firft made a ftretch o f ten leagues to
the North W e f t a n d then, fee ing no land in that diredtion,
I flood back to the Eaftward about fifteen leagues, and met
with nothing but pieces o f drift-wood. T he foundings were
from twenty-two to nineteen fathoms.
Variable, ligh t winds, with fhowers o f rain, prevailed all
Sunday 2. the 2d ; but fixing in the South Eaft quarter, in the morning
Monday 3. o f the 3d, w e refumed our courfe to the Northward. At noon
we were, by obfervation, in the latitude o f 62° 34', our longitude
was 192°; and our depth o f water fixteen fathoms.
Mr. Anderfon, m y furgeon, w ho had been lin g e r in g under
a confumption fo r more than twelve months, expired
between three and four this afternoon. He was a fenfible
yo u n g man, an agreeable companion, w e ll fkilled in his
own p rofefiion; and had acquired confiderable knowledge
in other branches o f fcience. T h e reader o f this Journal
w ill have obferved how u fe fu l an affiftant I had found him
in the courfe o f the voyage ; and had it pleafed God to have
fpared his life, the Public, I make no doubt, might have re-
ceived from him fuch communications, on various parts of
the natural hiftory o f the feveral places we vilited, as would
have abundantly (hewn, that he was not unworthy o f this
•commendation *. Soon after he had breathed his laft, land
<
* Mr. Anderfori’s Journal feems to have been difcontinued fo r about two month*
‘before his death j the lait date in his M S S . being o f the 3d o f June.
was
was feen to the Weftward, twelve leagues diftant. It was 1778.
fuppofed to be an iflan d; and, to perpetuate the memory o f , f
the deceafed, fo r whom I had a very great regard, I named
v. Anderfon’s IJland. T he next day, I removed Mr. Law, the
furgeon o f the Difcovery, into the Refolution, and appointed
Mr. Samuel, the Surgeon’s firft mate o f the Refolution, to
be Surgeon o f the Difcovery.
On the 4th, at three in the afternoon, land was feen, ex- Tue^ay 4*
tending from North North Eaft to North Weft. We flood on
toward it till four o’clock, when, being four or five miles
from it, we tacked ; and, foon after, the wind fallin g, we
anchored in thirteen fathoms water, over a fandy bottom •
being about two leagues from the land, and, by our reckonin
g, in the latitude o f 64° 29', and in the longitude o f 194° 1 g'.
At intervals, we could fee the coaft extending from Eaft to
North Weft, and a pretty high ifland, bearing Weft b y North,
three leagues diftant.
T h e land before us, which we fuppofed to be the continent
o f America, appeared low next the f e a ; but, inland, it
fwelled into hills, which rife, one behind another, to a confiderable
height. It had a greenilh hue, but feemed defth
tute of;wood, 4nd free from fnow. While we la y at anchor,
we found that the flood-tide came from the Eaft, and
fet to the Weft, till between ten and eleven o’clock. From
that time, till two the next morning, the ftream fet to the
Eaftward, and the water fell three feet. The flood ran both
ftronger and longer than the e b b ; from which I concluded,
that, befides the tide, there was a Wefterly current.
At ten in the morning o f the 5th, with the wind at South wednef. 5.
Weft, we ran down, and anchored between the ifland and
the continent, in feven fathoms water. Soon after, I landed
Vo1“ lr’ 3 L upon