difappeared; and the fides o f the hills, which, in many
parts, were w e ll wooded,, were covered with a beautiful verdure.
As it was Captain Cle rk e ’s intention to keep as m u ch in
fight o f the coaft o f Kamtfchatka as the weather would permit,
in order to determine its pofition, we continued fleering;
to the North North Eaft, with ligh t and variable winds, t i l l
the 18th. T h e volcano was ftill feen throwing up immenfe
volumes o f fm o k e ; and we had no foundings with one hundred
and fifty fathoms, at the diftance o f four leagu es from:
the fhore.
On the 18th, the wind frefhening from the South, the:
weather became fo thick and ha zy, as to make it imprudent
to attempt any longer to keep in fight o f the land. But
that w e might be ready to refume our furvey, whenever
the fogs ihould difperfe, w e ran on in the direction o f the
coaft, as laid down in the Ruffian charts, and fired fign all
guns for. the Difcovery to fleer the fame courfe. At: eleven
o’clock, ju fl before w e lo flfig h t o f the-land, Cheeponfkoi
Nofs, fo called b y the Ruffians (a defcription o f which, as,
w e ll as the coafl between it and Awatfka Bay, w ill be given
hereafter), bore North. North. Eaft,. diftant. feven. or eight:
leagues.
On the 20th, at three in the morning, the weather having.;
cleared up, we flood in toward the lan d ; and in an hour’s,
time faw it ahead, extending from North Weft to North:
North Eaft, diftant about five le a gu e s .. T h e North part we
took to be Kronotfkoi N o fs ; its pofition in the Ruffian charts
agreeing nearly with our reckoning as to its latitude, w hich
was 54° 42'; but, in longitude, w e differed from them con-
fiderably, they placing it 1° 48' Eaft o f A w a t fk a ; : w herea s ,.
®ur reckoning, correfted by the time-keepers and lunar ob- jjjs*
fervations,, makes it 3° 34' Eaflward o f that place, or 162° 17' -— »— -*
Eaft from Greenwich. T h e land about this cape is very
high, and the inland mountains were ftill covered with fnow.
T h e fhore breaks o ff in fteep cliffs, and the coaft is without
any appearance o f inlets or bays. We had not been long
gratified with this fight o f the land, when the wind frefhen-
ed from the South Weft, and brought on a thick fog, which
obliged us to fland off to the North Eaft by Eaft. T he weather
clearing up again at noon, we fleered toward the land,
expecting to fall in with Kamtfchatfkoi Nofs, and had fight
o f it at day-break o f the 2 1 ft Monday 21».
T h e Southerly wind was foon after fucceeded by a ligh t
breeze b lowin g o ff the land, which prevented our approachin
g the coaft fufficiently near to defcribe its afpedl, or afcer-
tain, w ith accuracy, its direction. At noon our latitude, by
obfervation, was 55' 5s', and longitude (deduced from a
comparifon o f many lunar obfervation s, taken near this
time, with, the time-keepers), 163° 50';. the extremities o f
the land bearing North Weft by Weft, three quarters Weft,
and North b y Weft three quarters Weft, the neareft part
about eight leagues diftant. At nine o’clock in the e v en in g ,.
h a vin g approached about two leagues nearer the coaft, we
found it formed a p rojeflin g peninfula, extending about
twelve leagues in a direction nearly North and South,. It is
level, and o f a moderate height, the Southern extremity
terminating in a low Hoping point; that to the North.formin
g a fteep b lu ff h e a d ; and between them, about four
leagues to the Southward o f the Northern Cape, there is a
confiderable break in the land. On each fide o f this break
the land is quite lo w ; beyond the opening rifes a rem a rk--
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