A VOYAGE TO 
3H 
CHAP. VI. 
General Account of Kamtfchatka . — Geographical Deferip~ 
tion .— Rivers .— Soil. —■ Climate. — Volcanos.—Hot Springs. 
— Productions. — Vegetables. — Animals. — Birds. — Fifh. 
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Qdtober. 
K AMTSCHATKA is the name of a peninfula fituated 
on the Eaftern coaft of Aha, running nearly North 
and South, from 52, 0 to 6i° North latitude; the longitude 
of its Southern extremity being 156° 45' Eaft. The ifthmus, 
which joins it to the continent on the North,lies between the 
Gulf of Olutorfk and the Gulf of Penfhinfk. Its Southern 
extremity is Cape Lopatka, a word fignifying the blade- 
bone of a man, and is fo called from its fuppofed refem- 
blance to it. The fhape of the whole peninfula is not un¬ 
like that of a fhoe, widening from the toe (which we may 
fuppofe to be Cape Lopatka) toward the middle, and nar¬ 
rowing again toward the heel, the neck of land above-men¬ 
tioned connetting it with the continent. Its greateft breadth 
is from the mouth of the river Tigil to that of Kamtfchatka, 
and is computed to be two hundred and thirty-fix miles, 
from whence it narrows very gradually toward each extre¬ 
mity. 
It is bounded on the North by the country of the Ko- 
riacks; to the South and Eaft, by the North Pacific Ocean ; 
and 
