trofles. We took the advantage o f a little calm weather
to try for filh, and caught abundance o f fine
cod- T h e depth o f water from fixty-five to feventy-fivc
fathoms.
On the i l l o f July at noon, Mr. Bligh ha vin g moored a
fmall k e g with the deep-fea lead, in feventy-five fathoms,
found the Ihip made a courfe North by Eaft, h a lf a mile an
hour. This he attributed to the effeCl o f a long Southerly
fwell, and not to that o f any current. T he wind freihen-
in g from the South Eaft toward evening, we ihaped our
courfe to the North Eaft by Eaft, for the point called in Beer*
in g ’s chart, T fchukotikoi Nofs, w h ich w e had obferved on
the 4th o f September laft year, at the fame time that we-
faw, to the South Eaft, the illand o f Saint Laurence. This
Cape, and Saint T hadeus’sNofs, form the North Eaft and South
Weft extremities o f the large and deep Gulph o f Anadir,
into the bottom o f w hich the fiver o f that name empties-
itfelf, dividing, as it pafies, the country o f the Koriacs-
from that o f the Tfchutlki.
Saturday 3.- On the 3d at noon, the latitude, by obfervation, was 63°
33', and the longitude 186° 45'; h a lf an hour after w hich
we got fight o f the Tfchukotikoi Nofs, bearing North h a lf
Weft, thirteen or fourteen leagues diftant, and at five in the
afternoon faw the illand o f Saint Laurence, bearing Eaft
three-quarters North ; and another illand a little to the Eaft-
ward o f it, which we fuppofed to be between Saint Laurence
and Anderfon’s Illand, about fix leagues Eaft South Eaft o f
the former. As we had no certain accounts o f this illand,
Captain Clerke was defirous o f a nearer profped, and im mediately
ha.uled the wind toward i t ; but, unfortunately,,
we were not able to weather the illand o f Saint Laurence,.
and;
and were therefore under the neceflity o f bearing up again,
and palling them all to the leeward.
We had a better opportunity o f fettling the longitude o f
th e iliand Saint Laurence, when we laft faw it, than now.
But feeing it at that time but once, and to the Southward,
we could only determine its latitude fo far as we could
ju d g e o f diftances j whereas now the noon obfervations enabled
us to afcertain it correClly, w hich is 63°- 47'. Its longitude
was found to be 188’ 15', as before. This illand, i f
its boundaries were at this time within our view, is about
three leagues in circuit. The North paft may be feen at
the diftance o f ten or twelve leagues ; but as it falls in low
land to the South Eaft, the extent o f which we could not
fee; fome o f us conjectured, that it might probably be
joined to the land to the Eaftward o f i t ; this, however, the
hazinefs o f the weather prevented our afcertaining. Thefe
illands, as well as the land about the Tfchukotikoi Nofs,
were covered with fnow, and prefented us with a mod
dreary picture. At midnight, Saint Laurence .bore South
South Eaft, fiv e o rfix miles diftant; and our depth o f water
was eighteen fathoms. We were accompanied by various
kinds o f fea fowl, and faw feveral fmall crefted hawks.
T h e weather Hill continuing to thicken, we loft all-fight
o f land till the 5th, when it appeared both to the North Eaft
and North Weft. Our latitude, by account, was, at this
time, 65° 24', longitude 189° 14'. As the illands o f Saint
Diomede, which lie between the two continents in Beer-
in g ’s ftrait, were determined by us laft year to be in latitude
¿5° 4 8'. we could not reconcile the land to the North Eaft,
with the fituation o f thofe Elands. We therefore Hood toward
the land till three in the afternoon, when we were
1 i s within