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but in no great variety and abundance ; fuch as the wood¬ 
pecker, the bullfinch, the yellow finch, and a fmall bird 
called a tit-moufe. 
As our excurfions and obfervations were confined wholly 
to the fea-coaft, it is not to be expected, that we could know 
much of the animals or vegetables of the country. Except 
mufquitoes, there are few other infects ; nor reptiles, that 
I faw, but lizards. There are no deer upon Oonalafhka, 
or upon any other of the iflands. Nor have they any do- 
mefiic animals; not even dogs. Foxes and weafels were 
the only quadrupeds we faw; but they told us, that they 
had hares alfo, and the marmottas mentioned by Krafche- 
ninicoff*. Hence it is evident, that the fea and rivers hip- 
ply the greatefl fhare of food to the inhabitants. They are 
alfo obliged to the fea for all the wood made ufe of for 
building, and other necefiary purpofes ; for not a flick 
grows upon any of the iflands, nor upon the adjacent coafl 
of the continent. 
The learned tell us, that the feeds of plants are, by va¬ 
rious means, conveyed from one part of the world to ano¬ 
ther ; even to iflands in the midft of great oceans, and far 
remote from any other land. How comes it to pafs, that 
there are no trees growing on this part of the continent of 
America, nor any of the iflands lying near it ? They are 
certainly as well fituated for receiving feeds, by all the va¬ 
rious ways I have heard of, as any of thofe coafts are that 
abound in wood. May not nature have denied to fome 
foil the power of railing trees, without the afliflance of art ? 
As to the drift-wood, upon the fhores of the iflands, I have 
no doubt that it comes from America. For although there 
may be none on the neighbouring coafl, enough may grow 
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* Hiftory of Kamtfchatka, p, 09, 
farther 
