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SARYTSCHEW’S TRAVELS. 
but evidently lower than Amnak, which, when viewed from the 
ocean, appears much elevated. 
In the evening I arrived at the village of Tschernowsk, and 
on the following morning, notwithstanding the snow and rain, 
proceeded to survey the bay, which I found to be three miles and 
three quarters in length. The water at the entrance is 15 
fathoms, with a gravelly bottom ; half a mile from the entrance 
is 35 fathoms deep; and a mile to the interior, only IB 
fathoms. A mile and a half from the entrance is a small cove, 
penetrating a mile and a half to the west, 14 fathoms deep in 
the centre, with a muddy bottom, and might afford an excellent 
anchoring place. On the peninsula lies the village of Tscher- 
nowsk, consisting of one large and one small jurt, inhabited by 
thirty-nine Aleutians. The latitude of this place is 53° 29'. 
It was now my intention to visit the western promontory 
of Unalaschka, and proceed to rnv vessel round by the 
southern-shore ; but being detained here three days by violent 
winds, and my provisions being on the decline, I w 7 as compelled 
to return. 
On the 1st of March I came to Koshiga, and -was informed 
by the inhabitants, that not far from here on the south-side of 
the island is another very large bay, whose very fine situation 
determined me to visit it, although I was detained by wind and 
weather till the 6th, when I proceeded in a treble-seated baidar, 
five miles along an inlet between a double row r of mountains. 
The bay is called Kullilak, and although not so large as had 
been represented, is admirably defended on all sides against the 
sea ; its length from south-west to north-weist is a mile and a 
half. The entrance of the bay is towards the north-west 65°, 
its breadth between two naked projecting cliffs 100 fathoms. Its 
depth in the middle is J 1 fathoms, and near the cliffs from four 
to five. Farther in the bay curves to north-east, and becomes 
broader but shallower ; and near to a small rocky island, the 
water is only four fathoms and a half: the bottom is sandy. On 
the left shore is a sand-bank, with several naked and con¬ 
ceal* 1 cliffs which ships must guard against by keeping to the 
right shore. After having passed this island, the bottom be¬ 
comes muddy, and the depth of water increases to seven 
fathoms and a half, and continues so to the furthest shore, 
when it receives the waters of two brooks; one from the moun¬ 
tains, the other from a lake. The shore of the bay isdn some 
places mountainous, in others high and rocky, then again form¬ 
ing a sloping plain. 1 then proceeded about three miles beyond 
the bay to a promontory on my right, to take a survey of the 
southern shore of Unalashka, and perceived that it has a south¬ 
westerly direction, and that the island is on this side very 
