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surface with a thick layer of moss and grass on the surface above.  These logs were in a sufficient state of preservation to have been used for fuel had they been dry but the exposure to the air had cracked them badly.
The large amount of drift wood thrown ashore here during the spring tides combined with large masses of earth transported from the sea and water courses attached to blocks of ice do much towards raising the surface above the sea.  Often a ton or more of earth & gravel will be found forming a slight mound on the tundra marking the last resting place of some wandering ice cake.

October 3-4
Finding game scarce I determined to return to the Redoubt.  Camped at the mouth of the river.  In the morning started at sunrise and a fair freeze offering I determined to sail around St. Michaels Island.  Stopped at 11:30 at the native village of Stebere's for Chy.  Was recieved by an old native called Me keet-ka and went to his house for Chy.  Before dinner he pressed me to take some Eucali which I tried, then some berries were brought in the only China bowl the house afforded these I found were a mixture of [[Leath?]] berries and Cranberries and were rather pleasant eating.  But when a kind of