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TOPOGRAPHY OF THE KUE1I.LS AND YESO. 419<br />

northern islands of the group have in recent years been almost deserted, the whole<br />

population having been reduced in 1874 to seventy-two souls, confined to the three<br />

islands of Sumshu, TJnekatan, and Sinskatun. Even the interior of Yeso is mostly unin-<br />

habited, while the so-called towns of Soya, on La Perouse Strait, Sibets, and Ncmoro,<br />

facing Kunashir, are mere fishing hamlets. The population is concentrated chiefly<br />

in the towns of the south-west, where the temperature is milder, and where supplies<br />

of all sorts are more abundant than in the north.<br />

Sapporo (SfifxporoJ, capital of the island, lies in an open alluvial plain watered<br />

by the Isikari and its affluents. It is a recent town, built on the American model,<br />

Fig.<br />

194. HAKODATE BAY.<br />

Scale 1 : 90,000.<br />

EoPG 14 .'.: I4CT45'<br />

to 64 Feet. 84 to 128 Feet. 128 Feet an

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