. Supplement to the arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. NORTHERN RIVERS AND COAST. crcafing in height from the north-eafl*. On the north is good anchorage in twenty fathom water. TIic fouth fide has a rocicy bottom, and for fome way to the call and weft llie fea is (hallow. At the north-cafl: end is a hollow, the haunt of walrufll's, and of myriads of gulls and other fea-fowls, which darken the air with tiicir numbers. 3« t- i The Dwbia is navigable to a great diflancc, even to IVologda, a thoufand xcii. verfls, or about fix hundred and fixty-fix miles by water. The ifles oiPodcfcmf
. Supplement to the arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. NORTHERN RIVERS AND COAST. crcafing in height from the north-eafl*. On the north is good anchorage in twenty fathom water. TIic fouth fide has a rocicy bottom, and for fome way to the call and weft llie fea is (hallow. At the north-cafl: end is a hollow, the haunt of walrufll's, and of myriads of gulls and other fea-fowls, which darken the air with tiicir numbers. 3« t- i The Dwbia is navigable to a great diflancc, even to IVologda, a thoufand xcii. verfls, or about fix hundred and fixty-fix miles by water. The ifles oiPodcfcmfioe form the Delta of this great river. The city of Jl) change! is approachable by two channels, an caficrn and a weficrn, each above thirty miles in length ; their di'pth is from three to eight fathoms. The city fl:ands on the banks of the cafterii channel. 'J'hc ifles are feparated from each other by a nariow flrait, which divides them midway, parallel to the greater channels, and is paflable by Rujjian lodia., the Northern Pilot fays by larger veflcls. As late as the year 17^4} a hundred and twenty fhips failed out of the port of Aichangcl. Vrom \.\\c North Cape the coaft of F/w/rtw^/runs cafieriy : North-l^y>i ov north- .xcii, point is a diiHnguiflied promontory; between them arc the three Jijlers, conic crao-Gf^ rocks of a grotefque appearance. From thence to Tana bay is high and land, and a bold fhore. The river Tana falls with a prodigious noifc into the end of the bay, forming a noble cataract; like the Aiten, it rifes far in Lapland^ and, after a long courfe through alps and morajfes, here has its difcharge. Among the leflcr rivers which feed it, fome were famous for beavers and pearls. The Laplanders had therefore, in 1652, this river committed to their fpccial care. The Tana is the moft celebrated of any in the north for its falmon j they are diftin- guiflicd by their depth, fhortnefs, and fupcrior excellency. The fifhery begins early in the fpring, and, by the l
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