a people inhabiting the northern part of Kamtschatka, and all the coast of the Eastern ocean from thence to the Anadir.—They are divided into the Rein-deer or Wandering Koriacs, and the Fixed Koriacs. The former lead an erratic life, in the tract bounded by the Penchinsk sea to the south-east, the river Kowyma to the west, and the river Anadir to the north. They wander from place to place with their rein deer, in search of the moss, the food of those animals, which are their only wealth. They are squallid, cruel, and warlike; the terror of the Fixed Koriacs, as much as the Tchutki are of them. They never frequent the sea, nor live on fish. Their habitations are jourts, or places half sunk in the earth; and they never use balagans or summer houses elevated on poles like the Kamtschatkans. They are in their persons lean, and very short; have small heads and black hair, which they shave frequently; their faces are oval; their nose is short; their eyes are small; their mouth is large; and their beard black and pointed, but often eradicated.—The Fixed Koriacs are likewise short; but rather taller than the others, and strongly made: the Anadir is also their boundary to the north, the ocean to the east, and the Kamtschatkans to the south. They have a few rein deer, which they use in their flocks; but neither of the tribes of Koriacs are civilized enough to apply them to the purposes of the dairy. Each speak a different dialect of the same language: but the Fixed in most things resemble the Kamtschatkans; and, like them, live almost entirely on fish. They are timid to a high degree, and behave to their wandering brethren with the utmost submission; who call them by a name which signifies their slaves. These poor people seem to have no alternative: for, by reason of the scarcity of rein deer, they depend on these tyrants for the essential article of clothing.—These two nations, Mr Pennant supposes, from their features, to be the offspring of Tartars, which have spread to the east, and degenerated in size and strength by the rigour of the climate, and often by scarcity of food.