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[[in margin]] Plover Bay  [[/margin]]
Plover Bay, which several of the vessels made a rendezvous has many advantages as a point of distribution for the extreme northern portion of the route.  It is a fine harbor well sheltered and with good anchorage and sufficiently convenient to Anadyr Gulf Port Clarence and Norton Sound.   From the head of this bay explorations were made in the direction of Anadyr Gulf and Sineavine Straits and a practicable route found by which the two proposed submarine cables may be connected.  This route is sixty miles in length and twenty miles from cable landing in Penkegu Gulf at the head of a small bay opening into Plover Bay, was erected Kelsey Station.[[in margin]] Kelsey Station [[/margin]]
The buildings at this point consist of One frame house, with flanking towers and two houses of stone and wood used as cook and store houses.  Here were left fifteen men with provisions for 300 days and material sufficient for the construction of forty miles of telegraph.  With a laudable enthusiasm the Party had before our departure constructed about ten miles, which was working and in good order.  We left in Plover Bay a deposit of coal and 50 tons of Wine brought
[[in margin]] "Evelyn Wood"  [[/margin]]
thither by the "Evelyn Wood," which arrived from Victoria September 20".  The same Bark also left 212 tons of coal at Captain's