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letter had arrived to its destination, and proper orders issued to the inhabitants of Anadyrsk three weeks before our arrival at Ghijiga.

The weather looking somewhat better we left Tigil September 15th. This did not last, and few hours after our departure rain, wind and wet snow came on again and only left us when, five days later, we approached Lessnoi.

The western coast of the peninsula, from Bolsheretski to Tigil is very swampy and clear of timber which grows only on the mountains and consists of the same species we had seen before; birch, poplar and cedar bushes. Numerous streams flowing into Okotsk sea indicate the proximity of the mountain range to the sea coast.

North of Tigil as far as village Kinkil, the mountains are quite close to the coast and the roads lead over hills of considerable elevation. Here the vegetation is not as rich as in lower Kamtchatka; the same kinds of trees are to be seen but of inferior growth and quality.

From Kinkil to Lessnoi the mountain range takes a somewhat easterly direction but from Lessnoi to Podkagernaya, on a distance of 250 versts the mountains- three or four thousand feet high- literally seem to empty  into the sea.