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curved inward from the top thus forming a beetling jutting[[?]] precipice under which one would seem in imminent danger of being crushed by the numerous parallel columns which seemed ready to become detached at any moment and come toppling down. This feeling was heightened by the hard wind blowing at the time and the numerous gigantic fragments lying on every hand where they had fallen on the beach 

Fig 2  
[[image]]   
is a poor representation of a second curious basaltic formation where the columns radiates from a center near the top of the bluff and extend downward for about fifty feet when they become lost in the massive rock of the lower part of the cliff. 

A [[strikethrough]] hair [[/strikethrough]] sealion came into the bay and was shot at & missed


Akoutan Is  May 13, 1877

Spent the forenoon on shore - a Hair Seal ("nerpa") came into the bay and was shot at but not hurt. A native shot me a Larus leucopterus and, Lanis [[car?]] at.  The bill is very much as in L. argentatus the color a [[strikethrough]] light [[/strikethrough]] lemon yellowish with a large orange yellow spot on the angle of the lower mandible. The legs a [[strikethrough]] pun [[strikethrough]] pinkish flesh color like those of the adult L. argentatus. 

Transcription Notes:
[[image: pencil drawings of two basalt formations]] previous transcription of "Lanis [[car?]] at" I believe is "Larus leuopterus and,". previous transcription of "beetling" I believe is "jutting"