New voyages and travels - 1821 Author:Richard Phillips Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Degree of warmthNumbers of fathoms of depth.Tempera- ure of the atmos- phere.Place ofthe ship.Trans- tatencv of the- water.Baftuponlbe linthc depth surface 1 of... more » tlic sea., - A latitude.' longitude.1 J i ]'.'Mi.: Atlantic. North.West. Oct. 1568,56'-710071, 139, 2712, 6710 1609 I5013872.53J, '13, 81O 56' 096MH1Sl. Cape Horn.SouthWest. Jan. 8M, 9vPj "196 67, G44, 1767,31aApril 7 South .Sea. Vloruiug.78,508,512579,218, 17124,5013mmm 57,5175Noon.79,668,012580,0April 1380, O79,0M79,815, 26'133,421379,020 . '78,05080,072,010079,815,20103, 42IS' 5G, 0200fy 12 On the Equator.North.Sou III. 82,555,0300 l 83, 0o 177,614- Northern Ocean. June 174,062,010075,029,2-1199,20la52,5309Jane 9 61,069,51063, 037,3199, 172 56,886 62.710043,0300After having dispatched the accounts of our first year's voyage to the chancellor, by express, and having waited in varn, for the post from St. Petersburg, which usually'arrives about this time of the year, we left Awatscha Bay, notwithstanding the contrary wind. from Kamtschatka to the newly discovered Kotzebue-Soitnd, behind Baring Strait.On the 20th of June wo saw Baring's Island, whose rocky snow-covered heights bore a cheerless aspect. On the S.W. side of it is a small rocky island, which has not yet been mentioned in any chart. Our observations gave us for the northern point, lat. 50W 221 IT',1 long, by the chronometer, 194 4' T; for the S.W. point, fat. 5.5" 17' 18', long. 194 6' 3T. From this island we steered towards the western part of St. Lawrence Island. The 26th lat. 63 f/, long. 171 43. In our approach to Baring's Land, we lost the fine weather, and we now bad a thick fog with a constant drizzling rain. Having made no observation since we were at Baring's Island, our situation by the ...« less