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the westernmost is, to appearance, the highest ; the 

 next is the volcano mountain, which may be known 

 from the smoke that issues from its top, and likewise 

 from some high table-hills connected with it, and 

 stretching to the northward: these two are somewhat 

 peaked. The third, and the most northerly, might 

 perhaps be more properly called a cluster of moun- 

 tains, as it presents to the sight several flat tops. 



When the navigator has got within the capes, and 

 into the outward bay, a perpendicular head-land, 

 with a light-house erected upon it, will point out 

 the entrance of the bay of Awatska to the north- 

 ward. To the eastward of this head-land lie many 

 sunken rocks, stretching into the sea, to the distance 

 of two or three miles ; and which will show them- 

 selves, if there be but a moderate sea or swell. Four 

 miles to the south of the entrance lies a small round 

 island, very distinguishable from being principally 

 composed of high pointed rocks, with one of them 

 strikingly remarkable, as being much larger, more 

 peaked and perpendicular than the rest. 



Tt is no way necessary to be equally particular in 

 the description of the bay itself, as of its approaches 

 and environs ; since no words can give the mariner 

 so perfect an idea of it, as the annexed plan. From 

 this it will appear, that the entrance is at first near 

 three miles wide, and in the narrowest part one mile 

 and a half, and four miles long, in a north north- 

 west direction. Within the mouth is a noble bason 

 of twenty-five miles circuit, with the capacious har- 

 bours of Tarcinska to the west, of Rakoweena to the 

 east, and the small one of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, 

 where we lay, to the north. 



Tarcinska harbour is about three miles in breadth, 

 and twelve in length ; it stretches to the east-south- 

 east, and is separated from the sea, at the bottom, by 

 a narrow neck of land. The road into this harbour 

 is perfectly free from rocks or shoals. We had never 

 less than seven fathoms' water, as far as our survey 



