Cxil 
VuLCANOS. 
KAMTSCHATEK A: 
merited this memorial. It lies in lat. 63.4, long. 192. An anonymous iflet, 
imperfeétly feen, and lying in lat. 64. 24, long. 190. 31, in mid-channel, com-- 
pletes the fum of thofe feen remote from land between the ftreights and the ifle of 
St. Laurence. As to thofe named in the chart given by Lieut. Syd, who in 
1764 made a voyage from Kamt/chatka towards Brrino’s Streights, they feem to 
exift only in imagination, notwithftanding the Ruffian calendar has been exhaufted 
to find names for them. St. Agathon, St. Titus, St. AZyron, and many others, 
fill the {pace pafled over by Capt. Coox, and which could not have efcaped the 
notice of his fucceflor *. 
The land from Berino’s T/chut/ki No/s trends vaftly to the weft, and bounds 
on that fide the vaft gulph of Anadir, into the bottom of which the river of the 
fame name empties itfelf ; and limits the territory of the T/chut/ki. 
From thence is a large extent of coaft trending fouth-weft from Cape St. Thad- 
deus, in lat. 62. 50, long. 180, the fouthern boundary of the gulph of Anadir, to 
Oljutorfkoi No/s, beyond which the land retires full weft, and forms in its bofom a 
gulph of the fame name. Off Thaddeus No/s appeared, on une 29th, abundance 
of walrufes and great feals ; and even the wandering albatro/s was feen in this high 
latitude +. Between this and the Penginfe gulph, at the end of the fea of Ochot/k, 
is the ifbmus which unites the famous peninfula of Kamt/chatka to the main 
land, and is here about a hundred and twenty miles broad, and extends in length 
from 52 to 61, north lat. The coafts are often low: often faced with cliffs, in 
many parts of an extraordinary height ; and out at fea are rude and fpiring rocks, 
the haunts of leonine feals, whofe dreadful roarings are frequently the prefervation 
of mariners, warning them of the danger, in the thick fogs of this climate }. 
The coaft has but few harbours, notwithftanding it juts frequently into great 
headlands. The moft remarkable are, the North Head, with its needle rocks, at 
the entrance of the bay of Awatcha (Voyage, vol. ili. tab. 58); Cheepaonfkoi Nofi, 
ftill further north, engraven in vol. ii. tab. 84; and Kronotfkoi No/s, with its lofty 
cliffs. The peninfula widens greatly in the middle, and leflens almoft to a point 
at Cape Lopatka, which flopes into a low flat, and forms the fouthern ex- 
tremity of the country. The whole is divided lengthways by a chain of 
lofty rocky mountains, frequently covered with fnow, and fhooting into 
conic fummits, often fmoking with vulcanic eruptions. They have broken out 
in numbers of places: the extiné& are marked by the craters, or their broken tops. 
The vulcano near Awatcha§, that of Tolbatchick, and that of the mountain of 
Kamt/chatka ||, are the modern. They burft out fometimes in whirlwinds of flames, 
* Coxe’s Ruffian Difcovery Map, p. 300.—Voy. ill. 503¢ + Voyage iii. 241. t Defer. 
Kamtfch. 429- § See tab. 85, Voyage, vol. iii. ; and defcription of its eruption, p. 235. 
\ See Defer. Kamt/chatka, tab, xVe P+ 342+ 
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