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the river Kamtchatka, is at about two degrees di- 
ftance from the eaftern fbore of Kamtchatka : and 
its fouth-eaft end is about three degrees from cape 
Kronotlki. This illand is 165 verftes long; but its 
breadth is unequal. From the fouth-eaft end to a 
rock, which hangs perpendicularly over the fea, and is 
at 14 verftes diftance from that end, the breadth of 
the illand is from 3 to 4 verftes : from that fteep 
rock to Suiputchei bay, it is 5 verftes : from Suiput- 
chei bay to Beaver’s fteep rock, it is 6 verftes : at 
Whale’s-ftream, it is y verftes ; but from thence 
farther on, it grows gradually broader. Its greateft 
breadth \yiz.~\ y 23 verftes, is over-againft the north 
cape, which lies 1 15 verftes from the above-men- 
tioned end. 
In general, it may be faid, that the length of that 
illand is fo difproportioned to its breadth, that our 
author doubts, whether there can be, in other parts 
of the world, any illands of fuch a lhape ; at leaft, he 
never heard nor read of any fuch : and he adds, that 
the illands, which they faw about America, and all 
the rows of them, lying to the eaft, have the like 
proportion. 
This illand conlifts of a ridge of rocks, which is 
divided by many vallies, that ftretch to the north 
and to the fouth. Its mountains are fo high, that, 
in clear weather, one may fee them from about half 
the diftance between the illand and Kamtchatka. 
The inhabitants of Kamtchatka, of old times, thought, 
that there muft be ffome] land over-againft the mouth 
of the river Kamtchatka, by reafon that [the Iky] ap- 
peared there always cloudy* though it were never fo 
clear every-where elfe about the horizon. 
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