58 JOURNEY THROUGH THE SOUTH-WESTERN QUARTER

Kroog-Laya ßukbta, or the Round Bay: it is not a füll verft inlength and breadth; its depth no where exceeds fix fathoms;and it has in its centre a fmall ifland, the anchorage around whichis fhallow. There are two falt-lakes on its fhore : one of thefeis fituated near the obtufe angle of its extremity, being feparatedfrom the creek only by a narrow dike; and the other is on theweftern fide of the bay, from which it is divided by an ifthmusfomewhat broader than the preceding. Its diftance from theStreletzkaya-Bukhta is rather lefs, but from the followingKafatzkaya-Bukhta^ a little more than a verft ; and the necks ofland between both are flightly elevated. The third bay is theKafatzkaya-Bukhta. It forms, towards the fea, together withthe fourth bay, which is ufually termed Fanary, one com-mon fheet of water, and is feparated from the latter by anifthmus about 350 fathoms broad. Its greateft depth is fromeight to ten fathoms; though it gradually decreafes to five,four, three, and even two fathoms: in the interior parts, itbranches out into two points, of which that towards the Eaftnearly defcribes a right angle. The laft bay, Fanary, likewifeforms two creeks of equal depth, but unequal length; theweftern one of which proceeds into the land in a South-weftern dire&ion, and is much {horter; its bed being of afnowy whitenefs. A flat and narrow ifthmus divides its ex-tremity from a falt-lake, which formerly doubtlefs conftitutedpart of the creek itfelf, tili the violence of the waves in anorthern tempeft had accumulated this natural bank. Thefaline lake fhews the fame white bottom as the adjacent bay;and appears, during the fummer, when I infpe&ed it, to con-tain lefs water than the latter; though it depofited falt at that

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