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BEAR ISLANDS. 



nofum,z.nA the fpcngia ocitlata, and tnfundihulum. And of the Fucus tribe, the faor 

 charinus, edu'.is, quercus, ceranoides, acideatus, glacialis, and trmicatus, Pallas ItiN. 

 ^ III. N"^ 135 and 136 ; and the ulva intejiinalis. 



xcvi. Befides the Argali and the Musk, the Ogotona Hare, Hiji, ^ad: No. 249;. 



the Caraco Rat — No. 299; the Garlic — No. 315; and perhaps the 

 CEcoNOMic — 313, firft appear to the eafl: of the Jtnefei ; and the Ibex or Wild- 

 goat again begins to fhew itfelf, after the long interval of the vaft trad: between 

 this country and the Carpathian mountains. 



XCVII. When the ice breaks in lake Baikal, t\\t fahno oxyrJyynchus, and the lenU, lay 



their fpawn in the fandy fhores, but in fummer retire into the deep water. 



The calUonymus baikahnfts. is a fifh peculiar to the lake ; is about nine inches 

 long, of a moft foft and tender texture, and flowing with oil ; it is never caught 

 in nets, or any way alive. It inhabits the vaft fubaqueous caverns of the lakes, at 

 great depths, particularly near the northern fhores, in places three or four hundred 

 fathoms deep. They are never feen but when they have been diflurbed by the 

 violent fummer ftorms, when they are feen floating on the furface, or flung in vaft 

 heaps on the fhore, particularly on the Pofoljki/h, and the mouth of the Selinga, 

 The people extract oil from them, which they fell to the Chlnefe. 



The fahno autumnalisox omul, is taken in the lake in June and July, in its paffage 

 ftill farther fouth. 



Vaft quantities of the fkins of the ,onifcus trachurus are feen floating on the 

 furface of lake Baikal ; a fpecies of infed: which abounds on the rocky fliores, 

 and is the food of the falmo knok-a.nd Jtg. Pallas Itin. III. 293. and App. 

 No, 54. 



cj. The Bear Islands were farther explored in 1763, by the two land furvey- 



ors, Jndrejef Leontlef, and Lyjfof. They began their journey on March 4th, 

 from Nifchne Kowitnfkol, in fledges drawn by dogs : on April 22d they reached 

 the fhore of the Icy fea, and oppofite to the mouth of the river Krejiowa, went on 

 N the ice in a ftrait diredion to the firft ifland ; on landing they found it to confift 



of fmall yellowifh gravel, overfpread with rocks of granite of immenfe bignefs, 

 but produdive of nothing but mofs and fhort grafs like the tundra, or the great 

 northern trad on the continent. They found there the remainder of a jurt or tent, 

 made of the floating timber which abounds in this part of the fea. It did not 

 feem of Rujfian conftrudion, therefore muft have been built by fome of the na- 

 tives of the continent, who came here for the fake of the chace of fea animals. 

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