As one sees it from, the ocean, Kamchatka appears more like a desolate than a habitable country.
It requires very good eyesight to discover the entrance of Avatcha Bay at a distance of eight or ten miles, but the landmarks are of such excellent character that one can approach without hesitation.

The passage is more than a mile wide.

Guarding it on the right is a hill nearly three hundred feet high, and standing almost perpendicular above the water.

At the left is a rock of lesser height, terminating a tongue or ridge of land.

On the hill is a light-house and signal station with a flag staff.