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spot, and poor bruin was soon dispatched by 

 shots from the windows. He has, however, 

 immortalized his memory, and become a pro- 

 verb amongst the town's people, for when any 

 one injures himself by his own violence, they 

 call him " the bear with the tea-kettle." 



On the 14th of July, M. Preuss observed an 

 eclipse of the sun, from which he determined 

 the geographical longitude of St. Peter and St. 

 Paul to be 201'^ 10' 31". On the same day Dr. 

 Siegwald and Messrs. Lenz and Hoffman hap- 

 pily achieved the Herculean task of climbing 

 the Owatscha Mountain, which lies near the har- 

 bour. Its height, according to barometrical 

 measurement, is seven thousand two hundred 

 feet. An intermittent smoke arose from its 

 crater, and a cap let down a few feet within it 

 was drawn up burnt. The gentlemen brought 

 back with them some pieces of crystallized sul- 

 phur, as evidence of their having really pursued 

 their examination quite into the mouth of the 

 crater. 



After having delivered all the articles which 

 we had taken in for Kamtschatka, we left the 

 harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul on the morn- 



