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The fiflies which are common to other northern feas, are '778. 



found here ; fuch as whales, grampulTes, porpoifes, fword- < , — '-> 



fifli, haUbut, cod, falmon, trout, foals, flat-fifh ; feveral 

 other forts of fmall fifh ; and there may be many more that 

 we had no opportunity of feeing. Halibut and falmon feeni 

 to be in the greatefl: plenty ; and on them the inhabitants of 

 thefe illes futfift chiefly; at lead, they were the only fort of 

 fifh, except a few cod, which we obferved to be laid up for 

 their winter ftore. To the North of 6J^ the fea is, in a man- 

 ner, diftitute of fmall filli of every kind ; but then whales 

 are more numerous. 



Seals, and that whole tribe of fea-animals, are not fo nu- 

 merous as in many other feas. Nor can this be thought 

 flrange, fmce there is hardly any part of the coaft, on cither 

 continent, nor any of the iflands lying between them, that 

 is not inhabited, and whofc inhabitants hunt thefe animals 

 for their food and clothing. Sea-horfes are, indeed, in pro- 

 digious numbers about the ice ; and the fea-otter is, I be- 

 lieve, no where found but in this fea. We fometimes faw 

 an animal, with a head like a feal's, that blew after the man- 

 ner of whales. It was larger than a feal, and its colour was 

 white, with fome dark fpots. Probably this was the fea- 

 eow, or manat't. 



I think I may venture to afTert, that fea and water fowls 

 are neither in fuch numbers, nor in fuch variety, as with 

 us in the northern parts of the Atlantic Ocean. There are 

 fome, however, here, that I do not remember to have 'lz^x\ 

 any where elfe ; particularly the alca moncchroa of Steiler, be- 

 fore mentioned; and a black and white duck, which I con- 

 ceive io be difl'erent from the ftone-duck defcribed by Kra- 

 flieninikoif *. All the other birds feen by us are mentioned 



* Hiflory of Kamtfchatka. Eng. Tranf. p. i6o. 



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