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by water, Vessels can enter Ashautar Bay by the 1st of July, the more northern ports earlier, the ice remaining in the southern ports longer.  

There is no road between Aian and Okhotsk and the country is very little known.  Some Indians have come over the route with deer from Okhotsk, though I have not learned of any Russians having done so.  From the information I can obtain I am led to believe that the route is practicable.  At all events I am determined to try it this winter.  When the Russian American Company had a post at Aian they had also a road to Takootsk about 1500 or 2000 wersts due west with stations on it and had occasionally a mail.  There is also a road from Takootsk to Okhotsk and from thence to Geshafah and thence to Petroparolovski, with plenty of stations and villages on the route but to go from Aian to Okhotsk by way Takootak is rather roundabout.  When I leave here I shall go to the heart of Eagle Lake or Ozerer Orell as it Russians call it, in a Government steamer in one day