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'779- ders that fell, and prevented him from proceeding on his 

 « „ < journey. 



The third volcano is on the top of the mountain of Kamt- 

 fchatka, which is mentioned as by far the higheft in the 

 peninfula. A thick fmoke never ceafes to afcend from 

 its fummit, and it has frequent eruptions, of the molt 

 violent and dreadful kind, fome of which were much 

 talked of, and feemed to be frefli in the memories of the 

 Kamtfchadales. 



The country is likewife faid to contain numerous fprings 

 of hot water. The only one that I had an opportunity of 

 feeing was at Natchikin ojlrog., and hath been already de- 

 fcribed. Krafcheninicoff makes mention of feveral Others, 

 and alfo of two very extraordinary pits or wells, at the bot- 

 tom of which the water is feen to boil as in a caldron, with 

 prodigious force and impetuolity; at the fame time a dread- 

 ful noife ilTues out of them, and fo thick a vapour, that a 

 man cannot be feen through it. 



Of the trees which fell under our notice, the principal are 

 the birch, the poplar, the alder (with the bark of which 

 they (lain their leather), many fpecics of the willow, but all 

 fmall ; and two forts of dwarfifh pines or cedars *. One of 

 thefe grows upon the coaft, creeping along the ground, and 

 teldom exceeds two feet in height. It was of this fort we 

 mule our elTence for beer, and found it excellent for the 

 purpofc. The other grows on the mountains, to a greater 

 height, and bears a fmall nut or apple. We were told by 

 the old Toio/i at St. Peter and St. Paul, that Bccring, during 



* Krafcheninicoff fay?, that the tree here fpok.cn of, is a dwarf cedar, for that there 

 is ru>t a pine in the peninfula. 



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