CONCERNING K A M T C H A T K A, kc. 



The face of the country throughout the Peninfiila is Pva.-uaroni. 

 chiefly mountainous. It produces in fome parts birch, 

 poplars, alders, willows, underwood, and berries of dif- 

 ferent forts. Greens and other vegetables are raifed with 

 great facility ; fuch as white cabbage, turneps, radiflies, 

 beetroot, carrots, and fome cucumbers. Agriculture is 

 in a very low ftate, which is chiefly owing to the nature 

 of the foil and the fevere hoar frofts ; for though fome 

 trials have been made with refpe(5l to the cultivation of 

 corn, and oats, barley and rye have been fown ; yet 

 no crop has ever been procured fufficient in quality or 

 quality to anfwer the pains and expence of raifing it. 

 Hemp however has of late years been cultivated with great 

 fuccefs*. 



Every year a veffel, belonging to the crown, fails from 

 Ochotfk to Kamtchatka laden with fait, provifions, corn, 

 and Ruflia«n manufa6tures ; and returns in June or July 

 of the following year with fkins and furs. 



* Journal of St. Petersburg. 



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