622 Cochrane' s Journey to the Frozen Sea and.Kamtchatka. 

 never appear io afl'cct iis iu calm sent the six humlred individuals, it 

 weather so much as ten or fitfeen during follows that each familj' receives a por- 

 ' '' ' ... tion of about lifteen (hoiisaud pounds of 



fish annually, or forty pounds a day. 

 Nor is such a quantity by any moans 

 too larj^c. considering llie number of 

 dops, which are generally allowed each 



the time of a breeze ; yet, to witness tiie 



aurora borealis, I have repeatedly 



quitted my bed in (hose extremes of 



cold, without shoes or slockiiigs, and 



with no dress on but a parka or froek 

 'r„ 4i._» I 1 ' ^ .,- .. 



To prove that I do not magnify the (en herrings a day, at least during the 



extremes of cold in (hat part of the 

 world, I beg to refer to Mr. Sauer's 

 account of Rilling's expedition, and 

 the present Admiral Sjirilehefrs account 

 of (he same, when 43° of Iteaumur, or 

 74° of Fahrenheit were rcpcateiliy 

 known. I will, also, a<ld my (cstimony 

 from experience to (he ex(ent of 42°. 

 I have also seen the minute book of a 



period of work. In the distance above 

 alluded to, there may be about eight 

 hundred dogs, who consume above four 

 thousand pounds of fish daily, during 

 half the year : the other half (hey prowl 

 about the banks of th<; river and iakci:, 

 and by (heir sagacity provide (heir own 

 subsistence. Indeed, were it not for 

 (hem, (here would inevitably be 



gentleman at Yakutsk, where 47° of plague in the (own of Nishnev Kolynisk, 



Keaumur were registered i(jual (o 84° for there is no filth whatever which is not 



©frahrenheit. consumed bv (bom. 



Indeed, there can he but litllo doubt " exu.es. 



that (he local situation of the Kolyma, Niseney Kolymsk has formerly been 



bordering ou the latitude of 70°, and celebrated by the rank of (he people 



almost the most easterly part of the banished (hither. The famous Coimt 



continent of Asia, is a colder one than Golofkin, one of (he ministers of Ca(ha- 



Melville Island, or (he centre of (he rine II. was for nianv years a resident, 



American Polar coast. Oko(sk,Idgiga, and nltimately died "(here. He Was 



YakH(sk, Tomsk, and Tobolsk, arccou- considered as a great intriguant, but of 



sidered equally cold and exposed as (he an eccentric character, a proof of which 



mouths of (he Lena, Yana, or Kolyma, is afforded by bis cons(aiit habit of 



Even Irku(sk, abou( the latitude of pnltjng himself, servants, and even his 



London, has yearly a frost of 40° of hou.'e, into mourning, on Cadierine's 



Reaumur, or 68° below the zero of birth, name, or coronation day. 'J'his 



Fahrenheit ; ye(, (he utmost degree of open and determined opposition utterly 



cold (hat I have observed, I have never precluded his pardon, and Nishney 



known attended by that crackling noise Kolymsk contains his (omb. The 



of (he breath which has been rcla(cd, conduct of a Livonian Baron, at one 



iior with those other strange sensations time high in (he cs(eem of the san<e 



which some have described; though I princess, merited and obtained more 



Iiave seen axes split (o pieces, and wit- favourable consideradon. The baron 



messed the ill effects of (ouching iron, successfully applied himself (o (he 



glass, or crockery, with (he naked skin, breeding of catde, in the viqinify of 



which will infallibly adhere (o them. Sredne Kolymsk, but his pardon arrived 



However I soon had reason to consider so late, that his age and infirmities pre- 



Ihe coldest d.iy gs (he fincs(, because it vented his acceptan<;e of the profl'ered 



was (hen sure (o be calm. boon, and he, his wife, and two children, 



Nishney Kolymsk may be termed a lie buried in (he church at Kolymsk; 

 large town in (his part of (he worh), his elde.st son returned to St. Peters- 

 containing, as it does, near fifty dwel- burg, and became repossessed of (ho 

 lings and about four hundred people (or honours and wealth of his father. To 

 eighty families), which is three times such men an expa(ria(ion to tliis, the 

 the number of any place betwixt it and most distant, part of Russian Siberia, 

 Yakutsk. must have been severe beyond nieasure; 

 FISH. , cut off for ever from for(une, friends. 



The quan(i(y of fish caught is pro- . rank, socie(y, and every enjoyment 



digions, as will bo inferred from (he that could render life desirable, 



following account. From Nishney aurora bokeaus. 



Kolymsk (o Malone is a distance of The only meleorological plietioihena 



eighty miles; the number of inhabi(an(s which occurred during my stay at the 



in the two places may be six hundred, Kolyma, was (he aurora borealis. The 



and these consume nearly (wo million scene fell far shor( of my expectadons. 



pounds of fish. Now, allowing one I understood, however, that (he nion(hs 



hundred and twenty families to repre- of October and November are (he niost 



proper 



