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or rather not at all explored by  Russians.

Everything being ready we left Lessnoi, October 30th, the road was very bad, there was but little snow in the valleys but I could not wait any longer. Some days later we reached Bodkaguernaya having crossed the mountains, which  are very high, steep, and with poor vegetation. We had to camp every night on the snow by a temperature between 70° and 75° below freezing. From   Bodkagernaya (where we found fine coal mines) we entered on the real Koriak territory of which I ask to speak somewhat in detail.

North of Podkagernaya the Kamchatka mountain range is divided into two branches, one runs along the coast of Penjinsk Gulf as far as River Taloffka emptying in the Gulf ten miles south of Kamennoi, the other takes an easterly direction. The mountains of the eastern branch are gradually decreasing in size, and fifty versts north east of Podkagernaya there is no vestige of a mountain range, the country being either rolling or perfectly level as far as the eye can reach. The soil is covered with a heavy growth of moss and in some places with cedar bushes. Even banks of rivers flowing into the Penjinsk Gulf are clear of timber. Nothing more gloomy than the aspect of these plains in a clouded November day, nothing more dangerous than a travel over these bare

Transcription Notes:
A verst (Russian: ??????, versta) is an obsolete Russian unit of length. It is defined as being 500 sazhen long, which makes a verst equal to 1.0668 kilometres (0.6629 miles; 3,500 feet).