76 ACCOUNTOFTHE 



Tfetdiina. Tfctchina lies Eaftward about forty verfts from Kanaga, 



and is about eighty in circumference. It is full of rocky 

 mountains, of which the Bielaia Sopka, or the White 

 Peak, is the higheft. In the valley there are alfo fome 

 warm fprings, but no rivulet abounding in filh : the 

 iiland contains only four families. 



Tagaiak. Tagalak is forty verfts in circumference, ten Eaft from 



Tfetchina : it contains a few rocks, but neither rivulets 

 with fifli, nor any vegetable produdtion fit for nouriili- 

 ment. The coafts are rocky, and dangerous to approach 

 in baidars. This ifland is alfo inhabited by no more 

 than four families. 



Atchu. Atchu lies in the fame pofition forty verfts diftant 



from Tagalak, and is about three hundred in circumfe- 

 rence : near it is an harbour, where fliips may ride fe- 

 curely at anchor. It contains many rocky mountains ; 

 and feveral fmall rivulets that fall into the fea, and of 

 which one running Eaft wards abounds in fifli. The 

 roots which have juft before been mentioned, and bulbs 

 of white lilies, are found there in plenty. Its inhabitants 

 amount to about fixty fouls. 



Amiach. Amlach is a mountainous ifland ftanding to the Eaft 



more than feven verfts from Atchu, and is alfo three 



hundred in circumference. It contains the fame num- 



a ber 



