27S APPENDIX!, 



from the bottom to the top ^vith large trads of thick and 

 fine wood |. 



Steller went afliore, where he remained only a few 

 hours ; during which time he obferved fev^eral fpecies of 

 birds which are not known in Siberia : amongft thefe was 

 the bird defcribed by * Gatefby, under the name of Blue 

 Jay ; and which has never yet been found in any country 

 but North America. The foil was very different from 

 that of the neighbouring iflands, and at Kamtchatka : 

 and he collected feveral plants, which are deemed by 

 botanirts peculiar to America. 



The following lift of thefe plants was communicated 

 to me by Mr. Pallas : 1 infert them however without pre- 



I The recent navigations in thofe feas ftrongly confirm this argument. 

 For in general all the new difcovered iflands are quite deftitute of trees ; 

 even the largcfl produce nothing but underwood, one of the moft Eaf- 

 terly Kadyak alone excepted, upon which fmall willows and alders were 

 obferved growing in vallies at fome diftance from the coaft. See 

 p. 1 iS. 



■^ See Catefljy's Natural Hiflory of Florida, Carolina, &c. This bird 

 is called by Linnseus Corbus Criftatus. I have feen, in Mr. Pennant's 

 MS account of the hiftory of the animals, birds, &c. of N. America, 

 and the Northern hemifphere, as high as lat. 60, an exadl defcription of 

 this bird. Whenever that ingenious author, to whom we are indebted 

 for many elegant and interefting publications, gives this part of his la- 

 bours to the world, the zoology of thefe countries will be fully and ac- 

 curately confidered. 



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