t, Gregory, and Martin 6 18 40 E.
Dip of the North Pole of the magnetic
needle, being a mean of the observations
taken in June and September 63 5 0

It was high water, on the full and change of the moon, at thirty-six
minutes past four, and the greatest rise was five feet eight inches. The
tides were very regular every twelve hours. On the coast, near the bay, the
flood came from the S., and the time of high water was near two hours
sooner than in the harbour of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

[35] See all that is known of this voyage, and a chart of discoveries, in
Mr Coxe's Account of Russian-Discoveries between Asia and America. We
were not able to learn from the Russians in Kamtschatka, a more
perfect account of Synd than we now find is given by Mr Coxe; and yet
they seemed disposed to communicate all that they really knew. Major
Behm could only inform us, in general, that the expedition had
miscarried as to its object, and that the commander had fallen under
much blame. It appeared evidently that he had been on the coast of
America, to the southward of Cape Prince of Wales, between the
latitudes 64 deg. and 65 deg. and it is most probable that his having got too
far to the northward to meet with sea-otters, which the Russians, in
all their attempts at discoveries, seem to have principally, in view,
and his returning without having made any that promised commercial
advantages, was the cause of his disgrace, and of the great contempt
with which the Russians always spoke of this officer's voyage.

The cluster of islands placed in Synd's chart, between the latitudes
of 61 deg. and 65 deg., is undoubtedly the same with the island called by
Beering St Laurence's, and those we named Clerke's, Anderson's, and
King's Islands; but their proportionate size, and relative situation,
are exceedingly erroneous.

[36] By some strange anomaly in human nature, it would seem as if, in many
cases, the apprehension of danger is in the inverse proportion of the
amount of evil to be dreaded, or of the probability of its happening.
Thus, the good people at Saint Peter and Saint Paul, who have but very
little more reason to expect the intrusion of enemies, than if they
dwelt in the regions of the North Pole, exhibit a remarkable degree of
unnecessary suspicion on the occurrence of the most harml