192 DESCRIPTION OF BERING ISLAND 



point, due east or east by south of the mouth of the Kamchatka 

 River or of Cape Kamchatka, is distant about 20, and the south- 

 eastern part 60, Dutch miles from Avacha Bay and the Harbor 

 of St. Peter and St. Paul within it. The island itself is 233^2 Dutch 

 miles, or 165 versts, long and of varying width. The southeastern 

 end is only 3 to 4 versts wide for two miles of its length toward the 

 west, to the place which was called by us Ne Obkhodimyi Utes^ 

 (The Impassable Rock) ; from there to the Sivucha Guba^ (Sea 

 Lion Bay), 5 versts; at the Bobrovoe Utes^" (Sea Otter Rock), 

 6 versts; at Kitova Ryechka^^ (Whale Creek), ^^ where a large bay 

 occurs to the south, likewise 5 versts; directly across from our 

 dwellings, 7 versts; at Lyesnaya Ryechka" (Wood Creek), 8 

 versts. Thence the width of the island increases slightly 1^ more 

 and more until finally its greatest width, towards Syevernoi 

 Nos,i5 or the cape extending out to the north, which is 115 versts 

 from the southeastern cape, amounts to 23 versts, or 3^ miles. 

 From here the land likewise continues to the northwest and 

 gradually decreases in width to such an extent that, 135 versts 

 from the southeastern cape, it is only 5 versts and, 15 versts 

 beyond that,^^ only 3 versts across, and so on until it again de- 



8 The nepropusk at Peregrebnoi Mys, or Cape Khitrov (Deutsche 

 Geogr. Blatter, Vol. 8, 1885, pp. 255-256). A nepropusk is a portion of 

 the shore at which the rocks descend abruptly into the sea without any 

 shelf at their foot, making impossible any passage around it by land 

 (ibid., pp. 236-237). (S) 



« Serebrenikova Bay? (PI. II). (S) 



10 Possibly the projecting corner south of Tolstoi Mys, before the 

 nepropusk (PI. II). (S) 



11 Possibly the larger stream south of Tolstoi Mys (PI. II), the "large 

 bay to the south" being Lissonkovaya B. (S) 



12 The MS has in addition "opposite Alexei Ivanov's stan." 



13 The stream debouching at Polovina (PI. II) from the major trans- 

 verse valley. See also, above, p. 150, footnote 344. (S) 



1* "slightly" not in the MS. 



i« Meaning Northern Cape. This is Cape Waxel in 55° 18' (PL ID- (S) 



"The words "15 versts beyond that" are changed from the MS 



reading of "at a distance of 150 versts," which amounts to the same thing. 



