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'779- feams caulked with mofs. The roof is floping like that of 

 ^_ u -.-. ' j our common cottage-houfes, and thatched with coarfe grafs 

 or ruflies. The infide confifts of three apartments. At one 

 end is what may be called the entry, which runs the whole 

 width and height of the houfe, and is the receptacle of their 

 fledges, harnefs, and other more bulky gears and houfe- 

 hold fluff. This communicates with the middle and bed 

 apartment, furnifhed with broad benches, for the purpofe, 

 as hath been above mentioned, of both eating and fleeping 

 upon. Out of this is a door into the kitchen, one half of 

 which is taken up by the oven or fire-place, fo contrived, by 

 being let into the wall that feparates the kitchen and the 

 middle apartment, as to warm both at the fame time. Over 

 the middle apartment and kitchen are two lofts, to which 

 they afcend by a ladder placed in the entry. There are two 

 fmall windows in each apartment, made of talc, and in 

 the houfes of the poorer fort, of fifh fkin. The beams 

 and boards of the cieling are dubbed fmooth with a hat- 

 chet (for they are unacquainted with the plane), and 

 from the effects of the fmoke are as black and ihining 

 as jet. 



A town of Kamtfchatka is called an ojlrog, and confills of 

 fcveral of the three forts of houfes above defcribed j but of 

 which balagans are much the mod numerous ; and I muft ob- 

 ferve, that I never met with a houfe of any kind detached 

 from an ojlrog. Saint Peter and Saint Paul confifls of feven 

 loghoufes, or ijbas, nineteen balagans, and three jourts. Para- 

 tounca is of about the fame fize. Karatchin and Natchekin 

 contain fewer loghoufes, but full as many jourts and balngans 

 as rhe former; from whence I conclude, that fuch is the 

 ufual fize of the ojlrogs. 



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