[Footnote 2:  Both Round Island and Calm Point are named by Coxe; Arrowsmith marks them, but has omitted the names.—­E.]

During the 14th and 15th our progress was slow, having little wind, and sometimes so thick a fog, that we could not see the length of the ship.  The soundings were from fourteen to twenty-six fathoms; and we had tolerable success in fishing, catching cod, and now and then a few flat fish.  At five in the morning of the 16th, the fog having cleared up, we found ourselves nearer the land than we expected.  Calm Point bore N., 72 deg.  E., and a point eight leagues from it, in the direction of W., bore N., 30 deg.  E., three miles distant.  Between these two points, the coast forms a bay, in some parts of which the land was hardly visible from the mast-head.  There is also a bay on the N.W. side of this last point, between it and an elevated promontory, which at this time bore N., 36 deg.  W. sixteen miles distant.  At nine, I sent Lieutenant Williamson to this promontory, with orders to land, and see what direction the coast took beyond it, and what the country produced; for from the ships it had but a barren appearance.  We found here the flood-tide setting strongly to the N.W. along the coast.  At noon it was high water, and we anchored in twenty-four fathoms, four leagues distant from the shore.  At five in the afternoon, the tide making in our favour, we weighed, and drove with it, for there was no wind.

Soon after, Mr Williamson returned; and reported, that he had landed on the point, and having climbed the highest hill, found, that the farthest part of the coast in sight bore nearly north.  He took possession of the country in his majesty’s name; and left on the hill a bottle, in which was inscribed, on a piece of paper, the names of the ships, and the date of the discovery.  The promontory, to which he gave the name of Cape Newenham, is a rocky point, of tolerable height, situated in the latitude of 58 deg. 42’, and in the longitude of 197 deg. 36’.  Over, or within it, are two elevated hills, rising one behind the other.  The innermost, or easternmost, is the highest.  The country, as far as Mr Williamson could see, produces neither tree nor shrub.  The hills are naked; but on the lower grounds grew grass and other plants, very few of which were in flower.  He saw no other animal but a doe and a fawn; and a dead sea-horse or cow upon the beach.  Of these animals we had lately seen a great many.

As the coast takes a northerly direction from Cape Newenham, that Cape fixes the northern limit of the great bay and gulf lying before the river Bristol, which, in honour of the Admiral, Earl of Bristol, was named Bristol Bay. Cape Ooneemak is the south limit of this bay; and is distant eighty-two leagues from Cape Newenham, in the direction of S.S.W.[3]

[Footnote 3:  Cape Newenham is mentioned by Arrowsmith, but not by Coxe; both have Shoal Ness, soon to be spoken of.—­E.]