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the width of the flat between the bluffs mentioned before & the one to the left of which forms the left bank of the mouth of the estuary going in is formed of this sand & pebbles in low ridges & dunes and along the coast is thickly filled with lagoons from the estuary and with numerous brackish pools. A number of broods of Eider ducks besides numerous females without young were seen and two nests found with unhatched eggs. A number of Turnstones were darting about making a great outcry and evidently had young. Near the mouths of the estuary on the rounded sand & pebble dune (parallel to & along the sea shore) near its end I found the site of an ancient but considerable settlement the pits numbering about 15 though all were rather small. They had the following shape [[image]]. At the end of this sand ridge of the estuary mouth and 300 yards beyond this old village was a hut recently occupied as seen by fresh egg shells laying about.

There were Lapland Longspurs and Savanna Sparrows among the sand dunes. Settling into the boat we picked our way up among the sand bars and small islands of the estuary for 3 or 4 miles and landed a gain at the foot of a low alluvial bluff about 20 ft. high where we hoped to find fossil bones but only two or three small decayed fragments of elephant bones rewarded us in this time though we were otherwise