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•77?- The mouth of the bay opens in a North North Weft di- 



rection. The land, on the South fide, is of a moderate 

 height.; to the Northward, it rifes into a bluff head, which 

 is the highcft part of the coaft. In the channel between 

 them, near the North Eafl: fide, lie three remarkable 

 rocks; and, farther in, near the oppofite coaft, a fingle de- 

 tached rock of a conlidcrablc frze. On the North head 

 there is a look-out houfe, which, when the Ruffians expect 

 any of their mips upon the coaft, is ufed as a light-houfe. 

 There was a flag-ftaff on it; buc we faw no lign of any 

 perfon being there. 



Having paffed the mouth of the bay, which is about four 

 miles long, we opened a large circular bafon of twenty-five 

 miles in circumference ; and, at half paft four, came to an 

 anchor in fix fathoms water, being afraid of running foul 

 on a fhoal, or fome funk rocks, which are faid by Muller *, 

 to lie in the channel of the harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul. 

 The middle of the bay was full of loofe ice, drifting with 

 the tide; but the fhores were ftill entirely blocked up with 

 it. Great flocks of wild-fowl were ieen of various fpecies ; 

 likewife ravens, eagles, and large flights of Greenland 

 pigeons. We examined every corner of the bay, with our 

 glafTcs, in fearch of the town of St. Peter and St. Paul; 

 which, according to the accounts given us at Oonalafka, 

 we had conceived to be a place of fome flrength and con- 

 fideration. At length we difcovered, on a narrow point of 

 land to the North North Eaft, a few miferable log-houfes, 

 and fome conical huts, railed on poles, amounting in all to 

 about thirty ; which, from their fituation, notwithftanding 

 all the refpect we wifhed to entertain for a Ruffian ojtrog, 



* Voyages made by the Ruffians from Afia to America, &c. tranflated from the 



German ; by T. Jcflferys, p. 37. 



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