60 THE ASIATIC FUR-SEAL ISLANDS. 



KABABELNOYE EOOKBRT. (Plate 99). 



The northernmost of the two main rookeries is Karabelni [Karahelnoye lezhbish- 

 tche) located south of the village of like name and easily recognized by a very charac- 

 teristic isolated rock, Karcibelni Stolp, which rises a hundred feet perpendicularly out 

 of the water at the western extremity of the rookery (pi. 38). 



The "Stolp" is connected with the main beach by a low, flat, gravelly neck, the 

 western portion of which is rocky and covered with waterworn bowlders. 



The main coast itself is formed by a series of nearly perpendicular bluffs, the rocky 

 sides of which lise above a narrow beach from 200 to 300 feet, and the only way to 

 observe this rookery is from some exposed points on the top of these bluffs. From 

 their projecting angles, in most cases, long rocky reefs run out into the sea, between 

 which small coves with a narrow gravelly beach offer shelter for the breeding seals and 

 their young. The bays thus included commence at a projecting bluff, between which 

 and the sea there is no passage at high water, situated just west of the "Stolp," the 

 first one between these two points being called Martishina Buklita. N"ext, on the east 

 side of the " Stolp," comes Bolshaya BuMta, as the name indicates, the largest of these 

 bays, followed by three small ones, viz, StaritcMovaya, Dalnaya, and Nerpitcha. In 

 Bolshaya Bukhta the hauling ground is mostly coarse gravel with waterworn stones, 

 up to the size of a fist, strewn over the surface and here and there with large bowlders 

 which have fallen down from the overhanging cliffs. The grounds of the bays to the 

 eastward, on the other hand, are stony reefs of the stratified rock of which Copper 

 Island is mainly built up. 



Nerpitclia Bukhta is easily recognized by a graceful waterfalh, which overleaps 

 the bluff in a fall more than 200 feet high. It must not be confounded with another 

 waterfall, yet to be described, which forms the characteristic feature of the hauling 

 ground specifically named Vodopad. 



Beyond Nerpitcha the bluffs again rise so abruptly as to allow no passage along 

 the beach beneath them ; hence the name of this projecting hlnW—l^epropustTc. Between 

 this point and the next a long rocky reef represents the beach; but the bluffs become 

 gradually lower toward the middle, where a little creek has cut a V-shaped valley 

 and falls over the comparatively low escarpment in a beautiful cascade 65 feet high 

 (pi. 45). From this waterfall the part of the beach between these points is named 

 Vodopad, and the cape terminating it to the east VodopadsU Mys. 



This Vodopadski Gape, with its outlying rocks, is the extreme southern point on 

 this part of the coast. It is the promontory seen farthest to the southeast from all 

 points of the coast to the north of it and farthest to the northwest from all points south 

 of it, although it projects but very slightly beyond a line through the westernmost 

 of these points. 



From Vodopadski Mys the coast trends a little northward again, being similar in 

 character, viz, a narrow reefy and rocky beach at the foot of the steep bluffs It is 

 followed by a slight indentation, from which the ascent is so steep and difficult that 

 It has received the name Ereplcaya Pad (the hard valley). It is followed farther east 

 by another, Nepropuslc. Beyond this, a narrow strip of beach is called MalinJca Bulchta, 

 the "bay" being chiefly due to the projecting reefs at both ends. It is the last beach 

 upon which seals have regularly hauled up at Karabelni, and is Ciilled the "little bay " 

 m contradistinction to the large bay immediately to the east, which is often called 



