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Passing Cooks streights

with much snow upon it on the SW side  at noon we were almost abreast of it & clear of the streights  it provd to be so far inland that we could hardly trace its outline so probably it is very high indeed. the land between us & it was flat for a large extent but seemd barren & swampy Land  after this barren & sandy & rounded away fast to the Southward  a small smoak seen upon it in the Even was the only sign of inhabitants that we saw.

8. as some of the officers declard last night that he though it probable that the land we have been round might communicate by an Isthmus situate somewhere between where we now are & Cape Turnagain (tho the Whole distance is estimated at no more than 90. miles) the Captn. resolv'd to stand to the Northward till he should see that Cape which was accordingly done in the morning the Wind being fair tho but a light breeze  as soon as we were in with the land it appeard more fertile than any we had seen for some days time and the flatts larger
 

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