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little fellow would sit down on the first handy flat topped piece of stone & watch one with an odd little tilt to its head
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As I proceeded the little fellow ran over to the top of the ridge & took refuge on the shelving rocks along the edge of the cliff and I left him.  Just here however I was surprised to find a soft layer of dry moss [[strikethrough]] e [[/strikethrough]] nearly in the condition of soft peat & about 3 to 4 ft thick & crowning the top of a steep rocky granite ridge- I spent about 3 hours tramping over the sterile [[strikethrough]] roc [[/strikethrough]] granite covered surface of this Island.  The common
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 bright yellow poppy so common everywhere we have been was the most prominent flower with the small yellow saxifrages close to the ground with a few other flowers mostly white and dark gray & brown or yellow lichens & dark colored mosses with the surface of the snow banks tinged pale pink to light brick red [[strikethrough]] by the [[?]] nivalis [[/strikethrough]]
On southern faces & in protected depressions a scanty vegetation had footing but nowhere was it thick enough to form a carpet so but the hard rocky soil could be seen and frequently the struggling plants were scattered one by one here & there upon the round tops of hills forming the Is.
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