On the 1st of July at noon, Mr Bligh having moored a small keg with the deep-sea lead, in seventy-five fathoms, found the ship made a course N. by E., half a mile an hour.  This he attributed to the effect of a long southerly swell, and not to that of any current.  The wind freshening from the S.E. toward evening, we shaped our course to the N.E. by E., for the point called in Beering’s chart Tschukotskoi Noss, which we had observed on the 4th of September last year, at the same time that we saw, to the S E., the island of Saint Laurence.  This cape, and Saint Thadeus’s Noss, form the N.E. and S.W. extremities of the large and deep gulph of Anadir, into the bottom of which the river of that name empties itself, dividing as it passes the country of the Koriacs from that of the Tschutski.

On the 3d at noon, the latitude, by observation, was 63 deg. 33’, and the longitude 186 deg. 45’; half an hour after which we got sight of the Tschukotskoi Noss, bearing N. 1/2 W., thirteen or fourteen leagues distant; and at five in the afternoon saw the island of Saint Laurence, bearing E. 3/4 N.; and another island a little to the eastward of it, which we supposed to be between Saint Laurence and Anderson’s Island, about six leagues E.S.E. of the former.  As we had no certain accounts of this island, Captain Clerke was desirous of a nearer prospect, and immediately hauled the wind toward it; but unfortunately we were not able to weather the island of Saint Laurence, and were therefore under the necessity of bearing up again, and passing them all to the leeward.

We had a better opportunity of settling the longitude of the island Saint Laurence, when we last saw it than now.  But seeing it at that time but once, and to the southward, we could only determine its latitude so far as we could judge of distances; whereas now the noon observations enabled us to ascertain it correctly, which is 63 deg. 47’.  Its longitude was found to be 188 deg. 15’ as before.  This island, if its boundaries were at this time within our view, is about three leagues in circuit.  The north part may be seen at the distance of ten or twelve leagues; but as it falls in lowland to the south-east, the extent of which we could not see, some of us conjectured that it might probably be joined to the land to the eastward of it; this, however, the haziness of the weather prevented our ascertaining.  These islands, as well as the land about the Tschukotskoi Noss, were covered with snow, and presented us with a most dreary picture.  At midnight, Saint Laurence bore S.S.E., five or six miles distant; and our depth of water was eighteen fathoms.  We were accompanied by various kinds of sea-fowl, and saw several small crested hawks.