rn
parts of the harness."--_History and Description of Kamtschatka, by
Krascheninikof_.

[18] Captain King does not seem to have heard or inferred any thing as to
the danger usually encountered in the summer excursions on the river,
from the nature of the vessels employed. This, according to
Krusenstern, infinitely more resembles a trough than a boat, being, in
fact, the hollow trunk of a tree, and exceedingly apt to be upset by
the rapidity of the stream. Thus, he says, scarcely a year passes in
which several people are not drowned, both in the Kamtschatka river
and the Awatscha; a serious loss any where, no doubt; but in this
country, where population is so scanty, and so uncertain, incomparably
more important in a political point of view.--E.

[19] On this occasion Major Behm permitted us to examine all the maps and
charts that were in his possession. Those relating to the peninsula of
the Tschutski, were made in conformity to the information collected by
Plenishner, between the years 1760 and 1770. As the charts of
Plenishner were afterwards made use of, according to Mr Coxe, in the
compilation of the General Map of Russia, published by the Academy in
1776, it may be necessary to observe, that we found them exceedingly
erroneous; and that the compilers of the General Map seem to have been
led into some mistakes on his authority. Those in which the islands on
the coast of America were laid down, we found to contain nothing new,
and to be much less accurate than those we saw at Oonalashka.

[20] The reader need scarcely be reminded, that mention is made in the
introduction to this voyage, of an honourable testimony of British
gratitude for the extraordinary services of this generous man. Of his
subsequent history, we regret to say, we are entirely ignorant.--E.

SECTION III.

Continuation of Transactions in the Harbour of St Peter and St
Paul.--Abundance of Fish.--Death of a Seaman belonging to the
Resolution.--The Russian Hospital put under the Care of the Ship's
Surgeons.--Supply of Flour and Cattle.--Celebration of the King's
Birth-day.--Difficulties in Sailing out of the Bay.--Eruption of a
Volcano.--Steer to the Northward.--Cheepoonskoi Noss.--Errors of the
Russian Charts.--Kamptschatskoi Noss.--Island of St Laurence.--View, from
the same Point, of the Coasts of Asia and America, and the Islands of St
Diom