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rocky, and characterized by cliffs than the northern. On the 

 northern side the shore can everywhere be followed except at 

 the Ne Obkhodimyi Utes^^ and behind the point ^^ that extends 

 towards the north, which is very abrupt and along the shore of 

 which there are many cliffs and fallen rocks. Here and in several 

 other places I have met with unusual aspects and effects of 

 nature among these rock ruins,^^ as in the case of the peshchem 

 named after me (Steller's Cave),^^ where the mountains closely 

 resemble a wall, and their outliers [resemble] bastions and other 

 parts of a fortress. Back of the cave a number of separate cliffs 

 are dispersed here and there along the shore, which one can 

 imagine to be ruins of walls and columns, vaults, and arches,^^ 

 and under some of which one can walk. 



I have also observed the following difference between the 

 opposite shores : that, if on the northern side a bay extends into 

 the land as, for example, near our dwellings, the land lying 

 directly opposite in the south extends out into the sea as a 

 headland; if a section of the northern shore is wide and sandy 

 then the opposite section to the south is all the narrower, rockier, 

 and broken ; if on the other hand on the northern side the shore 



32 See, above, footnote 8. 



33 Cape Waxel (see, above, footnote 15). 



3* In the MS this sentence reads to here as follows: "in several other 

 places I have met with similar wonderful, unusual prospects which at 

 first glance were more like the ruins of large cities and buildings than 

 an aspect of nature." 



35 Although in 1882 I identified {Deutsche Geogr. Blatter, Vol. 8, 1885, 

 p. 237) the area of ruined natural walls and columns, vaults, and arches 

 back of which Steller states that his cave lay as lying immediately south 

 of Poludennyi Mys (on the western shore in 55°; PI. II), I do not now 

 hold the opinion that Steller's Cave lay in that vicinity. There is not at 

 present known any cave that corresponds to Steller's description, the 

 nearest approach being the caves on Dikyi Mys farther southeast along 

 the shore (near Dikaya B., PI. II), and it is more likely that the cave was 

 located in that general neighborhood. (S) 



36 One of these arches I have named Steller's Arch {loc. cit.). It lies 

 on the shore immediately southeast of Poludennyi Mys (PI. II; for views 

 of the arch see the present sketch. Fig. 26, and a photograph. Bull. U. S. 

 Fish Comrn., Vol. 16, 1896, PI. 27b). (S) 



