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'779- able fuddle-like hill ; and a chain of high mountains, co- 



Jtjnc. 



\ — -v — ' vered with mow, ranges along the Lack of the whole pen- 

 infula. 



As the coaft runs in an even direction, we were at a 

 great lofs where to place Kamtfchatfkoi Nofs, which, ac- 

 cording to Muller, forms a projecting point about the 

 middle of the peninfula, and which certainly does not exift; 

 but I have fince found, that, in the general map publifhed 

 by the academy of Feterfburg in 1776, that name is given 

 to the Southern cape. This was found, by feveral accurate 

 obfervations, to be in latitude 56° 3', longitude 163 20' ; the 

 difference in longitude, from the Ruffian charts, being the 

 fame as at Kronotfkoi Nofs. The variation of the compafs at 

 this time was io° Eaft. To the Southward of this peninfula 

 the great river Kamtfchatka falls into the fea. 



As the feafon was too far advanced to admit of our making 

 an accurate furvey of the coaft of Kamtfchatka, it was Cap- 

 tain Clerke's plan, in our run to Becring's Straits, to de- 

 termine principally the pofitions of the projecting points of 

 the coaft. We, therefore, directed our couife acrofs an ex- 

 tenfive bay, laid down between Kamtfchatfkoi Nofs and 

 Olutorlkoi Nofs, intending to make the latter ; which, ac- 

 cording to the Ruffian geographers, terminates the penin- 

 fula called Kamtfchatka, and becomes the Southern boun- 

 dary of the Koriaki country. 



Tuefday 22. On the 2 id, we paffed a dead whale, which emitted a 

 horrid ftench, perceivable at upward of a league's diftance ; 

 it was covered with a great number of fca-birds, that were 

 feafting on it. 



Z4. On the 24th, the wind, which had varied round the com- 

 pafs the three preceding days, fixed at South Weft, and 



brought 



