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(^ August 17, 1742. After Midday 



134 Khitrov's journal: "At 9:30 we sighted, through the mist, land in the W from which 

 rose a high, snow-covered volcano, which we identified as in Kamchatka, near Cape 

 Kronotski. We steered away from the land." Cape Kronotski is shown on PI. I. 



