THE ST. LAWRENCE ISLANDS. I7I 



SO pursued, they suddenly vanished from these parts. 

 At noon, when my business was concluded, we re- 

 turned on board ; I immediately ordered all the 

 sails to be set, and took my course to the island of 

 St. Paul, where I hoped to be able to procure from 

 the agents residing there woollen-stuff for warm 

 clothing for my crew. 



The island of Georgia is of a middling height, 

 runs in a straight line, and seems to have been 

 formed by the eruption of a volcano. Though it 

 is more to the north than Oonalashka, the climate 

 of the latter is more severe, owing to its high 

 mountains. The inhabitants affirm that they have 

 seen for two years past, in the N.E., fire ascending 

 during the night, and are of opinion that there 

 must be a volcano in that direction. This volcano 

 cannot stand on the continent, as the distance is 

 too great to see an explosion ; therefore, if the 

 Aleutians have seen rightly, there must be an 

 island there. 



The 2d of July. Already, at five o'clock in the 

 morning, we got sight of the island of St. Paul, 

 where we had a calm. We were on the southern 

 part near the small Sea-Otter Island, when the 

 agent of the Company, M. Batujefi came up to 

 us in a bay dare, and offered us his services. The 

 Rurick had been taken for a Company's ship, as 

 no others are accustomed to come here ; and as 

 they must be always unloaded and loaded again 

 with much haste in the open sea, there being here 



