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There are several very sharp or bold peaks but toward the Narrows the land is low. The shore of Revillagigedo Inlet opposite is fringed with islands, much broken  There is one large ramifying inlet. The land rises 2-3000 ft inland but is low towards the narrows. The shores are rocky mostly bold-to and there are few beaches. It is all wooded. more sparsely on the summits.
Two waterfalls on the western shore, here is anchorage in 19 fms pretty close in, on
muddy bottom.
Ward Cove, of small extent, is just N. of Peninsula Pt. Tongass Narrows.  Steer in until you get fourteen fathoms in mid channel then anchor in muddy bottom, good holding ground and perfect shelter, no dangers. Fresh water can be had here.
Point Vallenar is low, narrow and wooded. There is a small island with low trees barely detached from the NW. end of the point and this is surrounded with low flat bare rocks probably partly covered at high water.
Half a mile northward from Pt. Vallenar is Guard Island, two cables in extent, nearly
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bare; low and rocky. The passage between this and the point is obstructed by rocks. Pt. Higgins is also low and wooded, both for a long way back.
Betton Id. is some 1500 ft high and bluff. From Ship Island to Pt. Stanhope the the patent log registered 32 miles. Tolstoi Pt. is low and wooded, rising slowly toward the SW. to a ridge of 2-3000 ft. The southern third of Etolin Id is extremely low and flat; wooded, the shores much broken. The northern part is higher and much more abrupt.

The east point of small high Island (Vanks??) in one with the Stikine mouth cañon bears N 1/2 E.

At Wrangell the low (150 ft.?) hill behind the town is covered with a very wet boggy soil of a black color and with quantities of (mostly syenitic) boulders scattered through it, apparently of glacial origin.

On the rock behind the site of the old Kaloshian church at Sitka about 50 ft above high water are what appear to be glacial scratches and deep groovings in a north easterly & southwesterly direction.

Transcription Notes:
Tongass is correct; Guard Island is correct, Tolstoi, Etolin, Vanks all correct; Vanks has ?? after it in the text.