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The mossy hillocks succeeding each other over the surface. About the foot of the 3 mountains are several small lakes one of which is situated within a few rods of another but is about 30 feet above the surface of the other, the basins, being of rock, so there is no communication between them

[[image - sketch of island]]

I landed soon after our arrival and took a stroll around the beach - The tide was out, and many bright colored seaweeds were strewn among the rocks on the half submerged rocks were many dark chitous and sea anemones and I found several branching sponges - a few savannah sparrows and tiltarks were seen and Canis leucopterus was [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] common. A male Eider and 5 or 6 ♀'s were seen on a rock and shot at but I only managed to wound the ♂ & a ♀ walking along a short distance I started a fine specimen of the wandering taller from the sharp angular volcanic rock which formed the shore at that place and secured it. The notes it uttered are given on the preceding leaves.

A short distance farther among some of the same formation where the waves had washed the loose debris away leaving only the jagged points of the rock for a foothold, I found a pair of Elliots sandpipers and obtained them both one was shot on the low rocks and the other flew up on a sharp cliff about 25 feet high and stood looking at me until I brought

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[[image: sketch of island]] ♂♀☿