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 the westernmost of the same group; and on the 28th of June, we find her entering the harbour of Petropaulski, in Kamschatka, after having traversed nearly 700 miles in so thick a fog that it was scarcely possible to see fifty yards from the vessel.

Commander Beechey’s object was now to make the best of his way to Chamisso Island, in Kotzebue Sound, as there were but three weeks left before the appointed time of rendezvous there; and accordingly every effort was directed toAvards that end.

“It was on one of those beautiful still nights, well known to all who have visited the arctic regions, when the sky is without a cloud, and when the midnight sun, scarcely his own diameter below the horizon, tinges with a bright hue all the northern circle – when the ship, propelled by an increasing breeze, glides rapidly along a smooth sea, startling from her path flocks of lummes and dovekies, and other aquatic birds, whose flight may, from the stillness of the night, be traced by the ear to a considerable distance – that we approached the strait which separates the two great continents, not a little anxious that the fog, the almost certain