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A VOYAGE TO 
1779* t0 even from one houfe to another, for fear of being 
froft-bitten. This extraordinary rigour of climate, in fo low 
a latitude, may be accounted for, from its being fituated to 
the Eafl of an immenfe uncultivated tradl of country, and 
from the prevalence of the Weflerly winds, blowing over fo 
extenfive and cold a continent. The extraordinary violence 
and impetuofity of the winds, is attributed to the fubterra- 
neous fires, the fulphureous exhalations, and the general 
volcanic difpofition of the country. 
This peninfula abounds in volcanos , of which only three 
have, for fome time paid, been fubjedt to eruptions. We 
have already mentioned that which is fituated in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Awatfka. Befides this, there are others not 
lefs remarkable, according to the account given of them by 
KrafcheninikofF. 
The volcano of Tolbatchick is fituated on a neck of ground 
between the River of Kamtfchatka and Tolbatchick. The 
mountain, from the fummit of which the eruptions pro¬ 
ceed, is of a confiderable height, and terminates in pointed 
rocks. In the beginning of the year 1739, there ilfued from 
it a whirlwind of flames, which reduced to afhes the foreffcs 
of the neighbouring mountains. This was fucceeded by a 
cloud of fmoke, which fpread over and darkened the whole 
country, till it was diRipated by a fhower of cinders, that 
covered the ground to the diflance of thirty miles. Mr. 
KrafcheninikofF, who was at this time on a journey from 
Bolchoireka to the Kamtfchatka ojlrog , at no great diflance 
from the mountain, relates, that the eruption was preceded 
by an alarming found in the woods, which he thought the 
forerunner of fome dreadful florm or hurricane, till three 
fhocks of an earthquake, at about a minute’s interval each, 
convinced him of its real caufe; but that he was hin¬ 
dered 
