BITCHEWISH BAY. 
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voyage. On the first of May, I went in a wooden baidar to 
the Shipunish promontory, in order to examine the contiguous 
bay, of which the inhabitants had said much that w as useful to me. 
We sailed immediately from the Aw'atscha bay with a fair 
wind, north-east-half-east, directly to the steep rocky moun¬ 
tains of Nalatschew 7 . To this point the shore is formed by 
an inconsiderable curve, and begins from Avvatscha bav, with a 
rocky declivity, but soon after becomes sandy and level as far 
as the mountains. Six miles from the mountains the brook 
Nalatschewa discharges itself, and from thence the shore be¬ 
comes again sandy and level. We lay to for the night by an 
island opposite to the mouth of the little brook Ostrownaga, 
about a mile from the nearest shore, and about five miles dis¬ 
tant from the cape Nalatschew, which lies to the south-west, 
one-third west of it. Its shore is steep, and it is itself moun¬ 
tainous, being about a mile in extent. 
On the 2d of May we proceeded strait to the Bitchewish bay, 
a distance of six miles, which we rowed, with a perfect calm, 
in two hours. 
The shore extends itself from its mouth, on both sides, under 
lofty mountains, to the Shipunish cape towards east-south-east; 
to the mountain Nalatschew tow ards the south-west; and to the 
bay Wachilskaja, in w hich merchants’ galliots used formerly to 
winter, where we found at its mouth a bark still existing. 
At its entrance the bay is a mile broad, and its interior lofty 
mountainous shore stretches tw'o miles north-east-by-n6rth. 
Farther on there is an inner bay, or lake, four miles in extent, 
into which one passes by a small strait, fifty fathoms broad, 
and three or four fathoms deep. More towards the middle of 
the lake the depth increases to fifteen fathoms, and the bottom 
is muddy. But in the first bay the depth, at the entrance into 
the lake, amounts to no more than four feet; of course only 
small craft, and not even these but at high water, can run into 
this haven, which would otherwise be very excellent. We staid 
the night here, and the next morning proceeded on our way back 
to Awatscha bay. At noon we were oft' the mountain Na¬ 
latschew, where we estimated the latitude at 53° 4'. 
Oil the 5th we returned to our ship, which w as entirely equipped 
and victualled ; but the ice still occupying the haven we were 
prevented getting into the roads. 
SARYTSCHEW, VOL. II.] 
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