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and was tiiiisbed iu 1823; is oval-sbaped ; no fresh water; sea- 

 lions breed there. 



OUNALASHKA. — MalcoosMn is the liighest mountain on tiie 

 ishmd ; 5,475 feet; volcano. IS"o one remembers of its having- 

 disturbed the settlement near it. In 1818 it made the earth 

 tremble and a loud noise, but nothing more ensued. It can be 

 ascended in August and September, when there is least snow 

 and the winds do not blow so hard. A great many creeks and 

 streams on the island, running down from the high hills to the 

 sea; many pretty water-falls. There are twenty streams in which 

 fish run up from the sea, independent of the trout found in all of 

 them ; salmon, salmon-trout, " keezoog," hump-backed salmon, 

 and " hie-eks/' Lakes on the island are nearly as numerous as 

 the streams, and are frequently found high up in the mountains; 

 many of them are very deep ; one of them more than ten versts 

 iu circumference, and in this one no bottom was found. 



Gulfs and bays on all sides of this island, especially on the 

 north side, and more good ones than on any other island of the 

 whole Aleutian chain ; three are on the eastern side, Beaver, 

 Captain\s, and MaJxOoshiii. The first ship entered Captain's Har- 

 bor in 1709, Captain Layvashava. xVt Oobiennah Bay a squad of 

 Aleuts destroyed a Eussian ship. Matreskenskayah Bay, a great 

 place for hump-backed salmon, and Paystrokovskie, two small 

 bays distinguished by the coming of a great many whales; and 

 from these bays to the west, about eight versts, are some small 

 lakes, but very deep ; all these bays are good places for ships 

 to stand at anchor. 



In Starry Gnvan the first Eussian ship entered in 1701. 

 Angliefikie Bay is where Captain Cook anchored. Chernovskie 

 is the finest harbor on the island, in the straits between Oom- 

 nak, and a dozen others, but of less importance. Kahleeta 

 Point received its name because iu a little bay under it a great 

 many whales used to resort; this point is the land-mark for the 

 harbor of Ounalashka. Cheerful or Jolly Point, so called by the 

 sailors who usually make it in a fog. It is made up of some 

 thirty difit'erently colored strata or layers, horizontal, distin- 

 guishing it from all other capes or points ; from its very summit 

 down to the water's edge, on one side, is a vivid green slope. 



At Morkrovskie Point, to the southward iu the hills, are the 

 remains of a fossil elephant, and a little farther, trending from 

 the southeast to the northwest, behold an elephant of the true 

 kind, lying quite horizontally, over 14 feet wide, and about 10 



