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confiderable ones: i. When there appears a great 
quantity of different kinds of the [fo called] fea- 
cabbage, fwimming upon the water. 2. When one 
fees the herb, of which, at Kamtchatka, they platt 
cloaks, matts, and bagsj for it grows only on the 
fea-fhores. 3 . When there begin to appear, at fea, 
flights of fea-mews, as well as droves of fea animals, 
fuch as fea-dogs, and the like : for though fea-dogs 
have a hole open at the heart, which is called fora- 
men ovale, and a du6t called duttus arteriofus Botalli , 
and, upon that account, may remain long under 
water, and, confequently, go to fome diftance from 
the fhore, without danger, inafmuch as they can, at 
a gi eater depth, find food proper for them: never- 
thelefs, it has been obferved, that they feldom go 
farther than ten [German] miles from the fhore. 
The fureft fign, that land is near, is, when there 
are leen Kamtchatka beavers, which live only upon 
crabs, and, from the make of their heart, cannot be 
under water above two minutes [at a time ] ; confe- 
quently, they cannot get food at the depth of ico fa- 
tnoms, or indeed at a much lefler depth j upon which 
account, they alfo breed always near the fhore. 
It remains ftill to fpeak of fome iflands neareft to 
Kamtchatka, which are not found in a ftrait line 
with the above-mentioned, but north of them ; efpe- 
cially of Berings illand, which now is fo well known 
to the inhabitants of Kamtchatka, that many of them 
go. thither, to catch fea-beavers, and the like fea 
animals. 
That ifland extends from the fouth-eaft to the 
north-weft, between yy and 6o°. Its north-eaft end, 
which lies almoft diredtly over-againft the mouth of 
the 
