ey might in future look upon it as a duty incumbent upon them to assist
strangers to the utmost of their power, and believe that such was the
universal practice of civilized nations. To all this must be added, that
after having relieved, to the utmost of his abilities, all our present
distresses, he shewed himself not much less mindful of our future wants;
and as he supposed it more than probable we should not discover the passage
we were in search of, and therefore should return to Kamtschatka in the
fall of the year, he made Captain Clerke give him a list of what cordage
and flour we should want, and promised they should be sent from Okotsk, and
wait our arrival. For the same purpose, he gave Captain Clerke a paper,
enjoining all the subjects of the empress, whom we might happen to meet, to
give us every assistance in their power.[20]

[15] Mr Dugald Stewart has not neglected to avail himself of this
incident, to illustrate his observations on the power which certain
perceptions or impressions on the senses possess to awaken
associations.--E.

[16] Even so lately as Captain Krusenstern's visit, the number of horned
cattle at Saint Peter and Saint Paul's amounted to no more than ten
cows and as many young heifers; of course, he remarks, there was no
butter, and very little milk. But it is his opinion, that it would be
extremely easy to support some hundred head there, as the place
abounds in the finest grass. Elsewhere he informs us, that it is
calculated there are about six hundred cattle in the whole of
Kamtschatka; a number which, for obvious reasons, he thinks may and
ought to be increased.--E.

[17] Extraordinary as this may appear, Krascheninikoff, whose account of
Kamtschatka, from every thing that I saw, and had an opportunity of
comparing it with, seems to me to deserve entire credit, and whose
authority I shall, therefore, frequently have recourse to, relates
instances of this kind that are much more surprising. "Travelling
parties," says he, "are often overtaken with dreadful storms of snow,
on the approach of which they drive with the utmost precipitation into
the nearest wood, and there are obliged to stay till the tempest,
which frequently lasts six or seven days, is over; the dogs remaining
all this while quiet and inoffensive; except that sometimes, when
prest by hunger, they will devour the reins and the other leathe