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found in the gulph of Kamtfchatka. The 
berries that grow on this ifland, though 
very fparingly, are the common Sc hichfa {a) 
and Golubel. On the contrary, the roots 
for food, namely, the Kutarnick (/;), and 
the red root, grow in fuch quantities, as 
to afford a plentiful provifion for the in- 
habitants. There is a little river, that 
fiows from north to fouth, and difcharges 
into the fea. Its courfe, from the fpring- 
head to the fea, meafures about feven or 
eight werfts ; and the breadth, from ten 
to fifteen, and twenty fathom. The 
depth, at low water, is an Arf chine (c) and 
a half: 
{a) Very fmall hurts, that grow brown on the 
heaths, but dark blue in the woods : they are 
otherwife called Ant-berries. Golubel is the com- 
mon Sloe. 
(£>) We cannot pofitively fay what root this is, 
for want of an accurate defcription. Krasciiex- 
INNIKOFF makes no mention of it in his De- 
fcription of Kamtfchatka i confequently, it is not 
known there. 
(c) A Ruffian yard, about three-fourths of an 
Englifh yard long. 
