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with numerous large angular fragments of pure white quartz upon the upper parts among the granite blocks & some metamorphic slate was seen near the nest.
About the Edge of the drift ice we came in through were some Stercorarius pomatorhinus  And when we were close by the Island I saw a single small auk with a white abdomen

Several flocks of snipe (not Phaloropus) were seen in the morning as were also some Rodgers Fulmar though neither of these birds were seen near the Is-  upon the NE. end of Is- a cairn about 3 1/2 ft high was built & a bottle 
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containing a record of our visit and a newpaper (N.Y. Herald) were placed beneath.
July 31st
Soon after midnight which we spent on the top we came down but I returned to find my Journal which I had lost on the summit & which I did not recover- meanwhile an observation for the magnetic dip gave 78° 45'. on the ice close to the Is-  I tried to secure a couple of Photo's with the sun only a few deg's high at 2 a m- one of a natural arch at the Eastern End of Is-  The highest point on the Island as [[strikethrough]] estimated at [[/strikethrough]] measured with an aneroid bar. gives 1200 feet for Mt. named Mt. Hooper
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