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and was fmisbed ia 1825; is oval-sbaped ; no fresh water; sea- 

 lions breed there. 



OuNALASHKA. — Malcooskin is the highest mountain on the 

 island; 5,475 feet; volcano. ZSTo one remembers of its having 

 disturbed the settlement near it. In 1818 it made the earth 

 tremble and a loud noise, but nothing more ensued. It can be 

 ascended in August and September, when there is least snow 

 and the winds do not blow so hard. A great many creeks and 

 streams on the island, running down from the high hills to the 

 sea ; many pretty water-falls. There are twenty streams in which 

 fish run up from the sea, independent of the trout fovmd in all of 

 them ; salmon, salmon- trout, "keezoog," hump-backed salmon, 

 and " hie-eks." Lakes on the island are nearly as numerous as 

 the streams, and are frequently found high up in the mountains ; 

 many of them are very deep ; one of them more than ten versts 

 in circumference, and in this one no bottom was found. 



Gulfs and bays on all sides of this island, especially on the 

 north side, and more good ones tha"n ou any other island of the 

 whole Aleutian chain ; three are on the eastern side, Beaver, 

 GaptaMs, and Makooshin. The hrst ship entered Captain's Har- 

 bor in 1769, Captain Layvashava. At Oobiennah Bay a squad of 

 Aleuts destroyed a Eussian ship. Matreslcenskayah Bay, a great 

 place for huoap-backed salmon, and Paystrolcovslde, two small 

 bays distinguished by the coming of a great many whales ; and 

 from these bays to the west, about eight versts, are some small 

 lakes, but very deep ; all these bays are good places for ships 

 to stand at anchor. 



In Starry Gavan the first Eussian ship entered in 1761. 

 AngliesMe Bay is where Captain Cook anchored. Chernovskie 

 is the finest harbor on the island, in the straits between Oom- 

 nak, and a dozen others, but of less importance. Kahlecta 

 Point received its name because in a little bay under it a great 

 many whales used to resort; this point is the land-mark for the 

 harbor of Ouualashka. Cheerful or Jolly Point, so called by the 

 sailors who usually make it in a fog. It is made up of some 

 thirty differently colored strata or layers, horizontal, distiu- 

 gnishing it from all other capes or points ; from its very summit 

 down to the water's edge, on one side, is a vivid green slope. 



At Morlorovskie Point, to the southward in the hills, are the 

 remains of a fossil elephant, and a little farther, trending from 

 the southeast to the northwest, behold an elephant of the true 

 kind, lying quite horizontally, over 14 feet wide, and about 10 



