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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]]
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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]]