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64 - Continued. - end of the first island, but no outlying reefs were observed. The second island is mountainous but not so rugged as the first. It extends in nearly a N. [[short hand 'and']] S. direction and may be eight miles long [[short hand 'and']] five wide, or less. The peaks were foggy but apparently from two to three thousand feet high [[short hand 'and']] volcanic Around the North point of this island the East shore is rocky with a prominent point making out, South of which is a bight with low land [[short hand 'and]] a stream behind it, and a shingle beach on which a landing might be made in fair weather. There was a good deal of driftwood on this beach. The Southeast end of this island is a moderately high, broken rocky point with precipitous sides. A larger island supposed to be "Kamagil" of the charts is separated from the one just spoken of by a strait running in an E. [[short hand 'and']] W. direction, five miles or more in width, at the Western end of which appears to be another island. The third mentioned to the South of the strait is larger [[end page]] [[start page]] - Continued - 65 than any of the others, and the North coast may have been twelve miles in length terminating to the Westward in a long low, narrow point. Between this and the N.E. end is another low point behind which is probably situated the anchorage spoken of by the natives. A heavy swell and strong N.W. wind blowing straight in however, forbade our entering to examine this locality. The shores of these islands appeared to be formed of volcanic breccia [[short hand 'and']] metamorphic slates overlaid by layers of volcanic ash [[short hand 'and'] tuff. Coasted round the North [[short hand 'and]] East shores of the group, but finding no safe anchorage or landing place, we were reluctantly obliged to give up the idea of obtaining an azimuth of this place, as the latency of the season and character of the weather gave us little to hope for, even if we lay off and on for a week or two. The islands present no resemblance whatever to the representation of them on Teh[[^i]]enkoff's and the U. S. Hydrographic Charts and the differences are irreconcilable. The older charts of Sarycheff and the Russian Hydrographic office are [[end page]]