KAMTSCHATKA. 26o 



Beering's Straits. The basin, wliich is inclosed in 

 these coasts and the Aleutian islands, is called the 

 Kamtschatkan Sea. The island of St. Matwey, 

 (Choris Island,) lies in the middle of it. 



The Asiatic coast is high, and washed by a deep 

 sea. It is indented on the north by the broad and 

 deep gulf of Anadyr, which is bounded on tiie 

 north side by the projecting Tschukutskoi-noss 

 (Anadirskoy-noss). It is also indented between 

 the noss (or point,) and Cape East, by Mat- 

 schickma, and St. Lawrence bays. Near to the 

 Tschukutskoi-noss, and to the south of the strait, 

 lies the island of St. Lawrence, (Gierke's Island,) 

 placed before the promontories, which are the pillars 

 of the entrance, like a half moon before two bastions. 

 The sea has more depth between the island and 

 the Tschukutskoi-noss, than between it and the 

 American coast, on which side the passage is 

 broader and shallower. The eastern part of the 

 island appears to be a group of rocky islands, 

 which the low alluvial banks have united into one. 

 Some inaccessible rocky islands rise out of the sea, 

 between St. Lawrence Island and Beering's Strait, 

 and in the middle of the strait itself. 



The American coast is inaccessible between 

 Bristol Bay on the south, (to the north of the 

 peninsula of Alashka,) and Norton Sound on the 

 north, which, by its situation, corresponds with 

 the Gulf of Anadyr, on the o])posite Asiatic 

 coast. The sea has no depth, and the waves break 



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