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size about 1823. No accurate measurements were made, 

 but its altitude in different years was variously estimated 

 from 350 to 2,500 feet. 



Liitke quotes Tebenkof to the effect that in 1832 the 

 island was not more than two nautical miles in circumfer- 



FIG. i. TEBENKOF'S SKETCH OF BOGOSLOF AND SHIP ROCK IN 1832. 



FROM THE SOUTH. 



ence and 1,500 feet in altitude. It was pyramidal in form, 

 its sides covered with sharp crags which threatened to fall 

 at any moment; the north shore was ragged; the south a 

 steep wall from which protruded a low tongue of land on 

 which sea-lions hauled out. A verst (^ of a mile) north 



FIG. 2. DALL'S SKETCH OF BOGOSLOF AND SHIP ROCK IN 1873. 



FROM THE SOUTH. 



of the island stood the high crag known as Sail Rock, 

 which at that time had no close connection with Bogoslof. 1 

 Liitke's atlas contains a rough sketch of Bogoslof, made 

 by Tebenkof, which is here reproduced (fig. i). So far as 

 I have been able to ascertain, this is the first published 



1 Liitke, F. Voyage autour du Monde, etc. Nautical Part, with Atlas, St. 

 Petersburg, p. 302, Fig. 18, 1836. 



