[Footnote 2:  It is somewhat singular, that neither Arrowsmith nor Coxe mentions Anderson’s Island.  The former, on additional authority, has marked but one island in the position specified, under the name of Eivoogiena, or Clerke’s Island.—­E.]

We got up to the northern point of Clerke’s Island about six o’clock, and having ranged along its coast till dark, brought-to during the night.  At day-break, next morning, we stood in again for the coast, and continued to range along it in search of a harbour till noon; when, seeing no likelihood of succeeding, I left it, and steered S.S.W. for the land which we had discovered on the 29th of July, having a fresh gale at north, with showers of sleet and snow.  I remarked, that as soon as we opened the channel which separates the two continents, cloudy weather, with snow showers, immediately commenced; whereas, all the time we were in Norton Sound, we had, with the same wind, clear weather.  Might not this be occasioned by the mountains to the north of that place attracting the vapours, and hindering them to proceed any farther?

At day-break, in the morning of the 23d, the land above mentioned appeared in sight, bearing S.W., six or seven leagues distant.  From this point of view it resembled a group of islands; but it proved to be but one, of thirty miles in extent, in the direction of N.W. and S.E.; the S.E. end being Cape Upright, already taken notice of.  The island is but narrow; especially at the low necks of land that connect the hills.  I afterward found, that it was wholly unknown to the Russians; and therefore, considering it as a discovery of our own, I named it Gore’s Island.  It appeared to be barren, and without inhabitants; at least we saw none.  Nor did we see so many birds about it as when we first discovered it.  But we saw some sea-otters; an animal which we had not met with to the northward of this latitude.[3] Four leagues from Cape Upright, in the direction of S., 72 deg.  W., lies a small island, whose elevated summit terminates in several pinnacled rocks.  On this account it was named Pinnacle Island.  At two in the afternoon, after passing Cape Upright, I steered S.E. by S., for Samganoodha, with a gentle breeze at N.N.W., being resolved to spend no more time in searching for a harbour amongst islands, which I now began to suspect had no existence; at least not in the latitude and longitude where modern map-makers have thought proper to place them.  In the evening of the 24th, the wind veered to S.W. and S., and increased to a fresh gale.

[Footnote 3:  Mr Arrowsmith, as in the case of the island mentioned in the last note, has given the native name to this island, viz.  Matwi, retaining also, however, the name of Gore.—­E.]