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opposite continent, with whom they sometimes 

 trade and are sometimes at war. They are the 

 same race of people as those on the continent of 

 America lower down and about the Russian settle- 

 ment of Kodiack, as appeared from a native of 

 that place being able to understand their language. 



From these Indians Lieutenant Kotzebue learned, 

 that, at the bottom of the inlet was a strait through 

 which there was a passage into the great sea, and 

 that it required nine days rowing with one of their 

 boats to reach this sea. This, Kotzebue thinks, 

 must be the Great Northern Ocean, and that the 

 whole of the land to the northward of the inlet must 

 either be an island or an archipelago of islands. 



At the bottom of a cove on the northern shore 

 of the inlet was an extensive perpendicular cliff, 

 apparently of chalk, of the height of six or seven 

 hundred feet, the summit of which was entirely 

 covered with vegetation ; between the foot of this 

 cliff and the shore was a slip of land, in width 

 about five or six hundred yards, covered also with 

 plants, which were afterwards found to be of the 

 same kind as those on the summit. But the asto- 

 nishment of the travellers may readily be conceived, 

 when they discovered, on their approach to this 

 extensive cliff, that it was actually a mountain 

 of solid ice, down the sides of which the water was 

 trickling by the heat of the sun. At the foot of 

 the cliff several elephants' teeth were picked up, 

 similar to those which have been found in such 

 immense quantities in Siberia and the islands of 



