A shooting trip to Kamchatka . ea, at whose mouths still lay the accumulated massesof last winters snows ; pinnacle rocks like rows of ironteeth shown to warn oft auNone enough to con-template a landing ; and the coimtry beyond, rising inabrupt humj)s and irregular masses, clothed with auniform growth of low but dense underwood, abovewhich the distant cones of snow stood out clear andhard against the sky. We shaped our course over smooth sea throughthe narrow entrance of Avatcha Bay. The latteris one of the finest harbours in the world, says , * if not actually the finest.
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . ea, at whose mouths still lay the accumulated massesof last winters snows ; pinnacle rocks like rows of ironteeth shown to warn oft auNone enough to con-template a landing ; and the coimtry beyond, rising inabrupt humj)s and irregular masses, clothed with auniform growth of low but dense underwood, abovewhich the distant cones of snow stood out clear andhard against the sky. We shaped our course over smooth sea throughthe narrow entrance of Avatcha Bay. The latteris one of the finest harbours in the world, says , * if not actually the finest. Rio andSydney harbours have no mean claims for thisposition of honour, but those of us who had seen * Cruise of the ? Marckesa, vol. i. yi\). 68, 69. A FINE HARBOUR 87 both were unanimous in awarding the palm to theirKamchatkan rival. A nearly circular basin of somenine miles in diameter, and with a narrow entranceopening- to the , it is roomy enough to ac-commodate the navies of the world. It is entirely J^SBSB^^^S^Sa. THE ENTRANCE TO AVATCHA BAY. free from dangers, has an even depth of ten or twel\-efathoms, and owino- to its affording^ excellent holdingground, and being well protected from all winds, it isperfectly safe in all weathers. But the ordinarytraveller will be struck, not so much with its nauticalexcellences as with the superb scenery with which itis surrounded. To the south rises the \ilutchinsky 88 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA volcano, now quiescent, a graceful cone of about 7,000feet ; and a little farther eastwards a huge ilat-toppedmass, exceeding it in height by a thousand feet ormore, obtrudes itself as a rare exception to the ruleot cone-shaped mountains which seems to obtainthrouohout the country. It is nameless in the charts,for we are in the land of volcanoes, and it is only8,000 feet in height. On either hand, on entering,are the two secondary harbours, Rakova and Tarein-ska—the latter nearly five miles in length—and withinthem again are other
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