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The firft ifland is about an hundred verfTs long and 

 from five to twenty broad. They efleemed the diftance 

 from the firft to the fccond, which lies Eaft by South, to 

 be about thirty verfts, and about forty from the latter to 

 the third, which ftands South Eaft. The original drefs 

 of the iflanders was made of the fkins of birds, fea-otters 

 and feals, which were tanned ; but the greateft part had 

 procured from the Ruftians dog-fkin coats, and under- 

 garments of llieep-fkin, which they were very fond of. 

 They are reprefented as naturally talkative, quick of ap- 

 prehenfion, and much attached to the Ruffians. Their 

 dwellings are hollowed in the ground, and covered with 

 wooden roofs reienibling the huts in the peninfula of 

 Kamtchatka. Their principal food is the flefli of fea 

 animals, which they harpoon with their bone lances ; 

 they alfo feed upon feveral fpecies of roots and berries : 

 namely *clovid-berrics, crake- berries, bilberries, and fer- 

 vices. The rivulets abound with falmon, and other 

 filh of the trout kind fimilar to thofe of Kamtchatka ; 

 and the fea with turbot, which are caught with bone 

 hooks. 



Thefe iflands produce quantities of fmall ofiers and 

 underwood, but no large trees : the fea however drives 

 afhore fir and larch, fufficient for the conftruition of 



* Rubus Chamsemorus — Empetrum — Myrtillus — Sorbus. 



their 



