TO THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN.
it, tod plainly perceived it covered with lloneè and
cinders dowh torits bafe, » if an ;e*'uption ^adi^lâtêly
happened. Round the crater ; i t fi .prefen ted- ragged
and niisdiapen points $ and feme final! Ihfubs werd
growing] ©n: 1 the -S, W.N fiâe^éer^ç’i tow dbwö; This
abruptfailL was-uondetfted^ with; thé iflaïÀf by a -low
ifthmus, which receded from it on each fidefdo as to
fbrm -circular bays ; tod the * land etotitiuçdr^ low
to , Come* diftancfc • At funfetthe extremes bore
.from E. té?the volcano Épi 2%° Wi-'tWë'- fe&gêe^i
ire had ^ r y ; finally -weather 1
and at lb li. we itoed in for the iflaivd, Which at
daylight we faw tb,- the E. N. tÜ j d h d l É ö i éH y
fronr the obfeurity of the weather, which wdë fqtidlly
and rainy, preventing any meridional obférration.
At noori the êxtremes were frdin *E.;to ïf.: ê* E.
three or four leagues.
It threatened to blow hard ; at 4 b. it inereafed to a
%Qng gale with eonffiant rain : the- ifland then bote of
E, two! Q t, three leagues the JÏ. extreme, and we
had: 0^,; fathoms water.when we furled the .topfexlsv
At midnight it was more moderate, and at-daylight we
ihhdh' fail. , In the morning the wind thifted to the
N4$VVand‘ we faw the land bearing from us S. êl* E»
to
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C ÏÎA P .
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October.
loth.