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Prof. Muir had a ramble on shore today and found the rock to consist mainly of mica slate with granity veins - he says it resembles very closely the rocks of some of the gold bearing region of California in the Sierras. He found maratime Pea, a Spirea, a Blue Gentian, an Epilopium, Mertensia Pediculoris(yellow) [] Cranberries, Rubus of two species, Erigeron, a dwarf violet, 3 corices 1 Edymus, 1 [[strike through]]agrostis[[/strike through]] Kalamagrostis [[strike through]]beside[[/strikethrough]] numbered the most conspicuous flowering plants
Alders were finished flowering willows were doing the same
The cranberries, Larkspur, Iris, Jacob's Ladder, also and archangelica- a fern and a Saxifrage beside it spruce-
The proceeding list includes the most [[right margin]] noticeable flowers[[/right margin]]

July 11[[underline]]th[[/underline]]
At 4 am we were under way and stood along the coast until off Cape Nome in the afternoon when we sighted a Schr.[[Schooner]] to the westward and made chase. After a couple of hours we came up and found she was the "Czar" of the W.F.T. Co- which we had left at anchor at W.M- A SW wind had brought her up here- Putting some letters on her. From the "March" we stood off for Sledge H- which had flown in sight for some hours- The weather slowly cleared up at this time from the misty [[strikethrough] sags [/strikethrough] SW rain + fog which had prevailed all day and the coast stood out rich green with banks of snow, here and there up the hillside with the higher mountains farther inland