THE   PACIFIC   OCEAN.                       3$3
The wind, by this time, had increafed to a very ftrong
gale, and forced us to a good diftance from the coaft.   In  ^^^
the afternoon of the 2od, the gale abated; and we flood to Friday 22.
the Northward for Cape Elizabeth;. which at noon, the next Saturday 23,
day, bore Weft, ten leagues diftant.   At the fame time, a
new land was feen, bearing South 770 Weft, which was fup-
pofed to connect Cape Elizabeth with the land we had feen
to the Weftward*
The wind continued at Weft, and I flood to the Southward
till noon the next day, when we were within three leagues Sunday 24,
pf the coaft which we had difcovered on the 22d. It here
formed a point that bore Weft North Weft. At the fame
time more land was feen extending to the Southward, as
far as South South Weft; the whole being twelve or fifteen
leagues diftant. On it was feen a ridge of mountains co-
vered with fhow, extending to the North Weft, behind the
firft land, which we judged to be an ifland,, from the very
inconsiderable quantity of fhow that lay upon it. This
point of land is fkuated in the latitude of 580 15', and in
the longitude of 2070 42'; and by what I can gather from
the account of Beering's voyage, and the chart that accom-
panies it in the Englifh edition % I conclude, that it muft
be what he called Cape St. Hermogenes. But the account
of that voyage, is fo very miach abridged,, and the chart fo>
extremely inaccurate, that it is hardly poflible, either, by
the one or by the other, or by comparing both together j
to find out any pne place which that navigator either faw
or touched at. 'Were I to form a judgment of Beering's
proceedings on this coaft, I mould fuppofe that he fell in
with the continent near Mount Fair-weather.   But I am.
* Captain Cook means Midler's j of whicka translation had'been published in Lon-
don, fome time before he failed.
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