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the left we passed 10 miles beyond into Spafarif (correct: Spafarid) Boy until stopped by shoal water. Off some 5 miles to our right the coast of the bay was bordered by a low bluff, for some distance as also to the right — between these was a sandy flat some 8 miles broad and extending up to 7 miles inland and constantly narrowing and finally limited  by low rolling hills, which extend back into the interior. The bluff to the right of our anchorage is formed of

The cutler was made ready and as at farm, Lt-Reynolds. Prof. Muir and myself started for the month of a small riots as laid down on chart but which we found to be only a craft whose broad saltwater gateway filled with far flats with 

salt water lagoons along the shore had deceived the earlier navigation-We worked up about 6 miles and just reached the limit of tide water and found the crack above the numerous shallow ranches it makes just below this to be 20 to 25 yards wide and four or 5 ft deep. From here its course disappeared winding back among the the low hills but it probably does not extend over 25 or 30 miles into the interior and becomes very insignificant after the snow banks are all melted.
After leaving the ship we landed on the track on which we found a dead seal (mukluk) about 7 feet long. We found the track to pebbly and sandy and to be formed of mica slate and quartz rocks. The land for several miles back and all