262 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



about to describe, embraces the chain of the Fore- 

 lands, which bound the waters of the Great Ocean 

 to the north ; and the seas, islands, and shores, 

 which arc to the north of it. 



This chain extends from tlie peninsula of 

 Kamtschatka, on the Asiatic side, by the Aleutian 

 islands, to the peninsula of Alaska, on the Ameri- 

 can side, over which peninsula the volcanic 

 mountainous shores reach to the continent of the 

 New World. We include among the Aleutian 

 islands, the whole island-chain, without entering 

 into their divisions ; and we also include the small 

 volcanic islands of St. George and St. Paul lying 

 out of the line, near to the north of Oonalashka, 

 which are by some unaccountable means left out 

 on Arrowsmith's charts, though they are perfectly 

 known even to English navigators ; for example, 

 Sauer. In the north of the Forelands we met only 

 with primitive mountains, ice, and alluvial sand. * 



The coasts of the two continents run opposite 

 each other; the Asiatic in a north-eastern, the 

 American in a northern direction, and form be- 

 tween high })romontories, the Asiatic East Cape, 

 (Vostotschin-oi, or Tschukutskoi-noss,) and the 

 American Cape Prince of Wales, the strait called 



* On the northern coast, which we visited, we observed no 

 trace of the floetz formation, which is entirely missed in the 

 highest northern latitudes of Europe. The expedition of 

 Captain Ross has placed the existence of floetz lime, in Baffin \s 

 Bay, beyond doubt. 



