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1779- height; to the Northward, it rifes into a bluff head, which 
is the higheft part of the coaft. In the channel between 
them, near the North Eaft fide, lie three remarkable rocks; 
and, farther in, near the oppofite coaft, a fingle detached 
rock of a confiderable fize. On the North head there is a 
look-out houfe, which, when the Ruffians expedt any of 
their fhips upon the coaft, is ufed as a light-houfe. There 
was a fiag-ftaff on it; but we faw no fign of any perfon 
being there. 
Haying palled the mouth of the bay, which is about four 
miles long, we opened a large circular bafon of twenty-five 
miles in circumference ; and, at half paft four, came to an 
. anchor in fix fathoms water, being afraid of running foul 
an a fhoal, or fome funk rocks, which are faid by Muller * 
to lie in the channel of the harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul. 
The middle of the bay was full of loole ice, drifting with 
the tide ; but the fhores were ftill entirely blocked up with 
it. Great flocks of wild-fowl were feen of various fpecies; 
likewile ravens, eagles, and large flights of Greenland 
pigeons. We examined every corner of the bay, with our 
glafles, in fearch of the town of St. Peter and St. Paul; 
which, according to the accounts given us at Oonalafhka, 
we had conceived to be a place of fome ftrength and con- 
fideration. At length we difcovered, on a narrow point of 
land to the North North Eaft, a few miferable log-houfes, 
and fome conical huts, raifed on poles, amounting in all to 
about thirty ; which, from their fituation, notwithftanding 
all the refpecf we wifhed to entertain for a Ruffian ojlrog , 
we were under the neceffity of concluding to be Petro- 
paulowfka. However, in juftice to the generous and hof- 
* Voyages made by the Ruffians from Afia to America, &c. translated from the Ger¬ 
man ; by T. Jefferys, p. 37. 
pitable 
