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mer navigation, is full three hundred 
werfts in compafs. No woods are to be 
found there. What grows there, is the 
fame thick reed, or fea-grafs, as in Kamt- 
fchatka. The rivers that flow from the 
lakes are but fmall. Both in this and the 
illand of Unalafchka, before difcovered, 
as alfo throughout our new Northern 
Archipelago, the inhabitants have no 
notion of any religion; and in their dark- 
nefs, only believe in witchcraft. 
The men wear upper and under 
garments of fkins of the Uril and Ar- 
jen (a), &c. the women wear the fame 
F 2 cloathing, 
(#) The Uril (Corvus Aquaticus) is a kind of 
water-raven, not unlike the crane : it is efteemed 
as a dainty. See Krascheninnikoff's De- 
fcription of Kamtfchatka, vol. I, p. 334. The 
Arjen^ Colymbus Ar£iicus y {Lumme dicius Wormis) 
Hoycr. A large fort of black and white duck, 
which are found in innumerable flocks on the 
rocky iflands : their fkin ferves to make clothes and 
furs. Sec Krascheninnikoff, vol. 1. p. 300. 
