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416 Of tot-n. Sunday i.]. Montliy Turfciay 16. ohriTvaiions <Uiiiiig that voyage point IJirakirs is placed in latitude

The wind at n.w. blesv a plealiiiu gale until the evening, ulini it was fueeeeded by ealms and light ariable airs of] the land, uliieh ecjiuinuid until near noon the next day. During thi fore |)ari<)rtlu- night the depth of water was from 70 to (p liithonis, but b) the morning we were drifted too far from the land to gain loiindings. The weather, ;liough clear over liead, was hazy towards the hoi i/on, and lendiied the land very indil". tinct ; in the aftertujon we had a fine breeze from the wellward, which enabled us to fleer in lor the land, and to gain a di(hintiew of'Clavoquot and Xittinat, which, according to tiie Sj)aniards, arc the native names of" port Cox and Berkley's found. The eafl point of the former at fun-fet by compafs bore n. 50 v. about 4 leagues diflant ; the well point of the latter, our neareO fhore, N. 28 e. about five miles (iillaut, and theeoafl in light extended from eafl to n. 6,3 w. We fhortencd fail lor the night, and inclined our courfe towards cape ClafTet. I had been given to un- derlland, that this jjiomontory was by the natives called Clallct; but now finding that this name had originated only from that of an infirior chief's refiding in its neighbourhood, I have therefore rcfumed Captain Cook's original appellation of cape Flattery. The weflwardly wind died away as the night approached, when we were in foundings from 30 to jo fathoms ; but light airs and calms fuc- ceeding, we were foon driven to a eonfiderable diflance from the land, whii'h in the morning was nearly obfcured by a thick haze at ihediflance of 5 or 6 leagues. The obferved latitude at noon was |<S" ji', longitude 2,3 1" ,'jo' : the coafl then in fight bearing by compafs from x, w. to r. i))- K. A want of wind until the next day mucli increafed our diftancc fron) the fhore, by our being fet to the fouthward ; and the land being flill obfcured by a dcnfc haze, prevented our difiL'overing that we had paffed cape Flattery until ten in the forenoon, when it was announced by the rocks to the fouih of it ; the largell of which, independently of Dcflruc- tion illand, is the mofl cxtcnfive detached land exifling on the fea coafl between cape Flattery ami cape Mendocino. It is of an oblong shape, and I