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hood, chickweed, scurvy grass, dock &c were still in bloom, many however were far gone in seed. Mosquitos, but not numerous, a few hymenoptera of small size and one or two microlepidoptera were seen. Birds were moderately abundant including a titlark which seems new to the fauna; and the marmots were very large & fat. The beach was very bare of life or remains of either animal or vegetable matter; the stream & sea were destitute of food fish, but the water seemed crammed with whalefeed of various kinds. There were no traces of moraines erratics or true glacial debris, and very few patches of snow, these mostly in sheltered ravines. There is a small village of ten or fifteen people at the eastern end of Cape Lisburne bluff. During the entire time of our stay the current at our anchorage runs about 2 knots to the west and south at evening there was an eddy along shore in the opposite direction. A light air springing up, weigh anchor & stand to the NE ward at 7.45 P.M.
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Index.

Agattu Id                              p. 70
Aghileen Pinnacles                        65
Alert Bay                                 17
Amatignak Id & Straits                    70
Astronomical station, Sitka              13, 29
Arctic Ocean, notes on                   78-79
Attu Id, rocks off                          69

Bare Hill, Grenville Channel              18
Barren Ids, Cook's Inlet                  45
Belkoffsky, arrive at                     63
            notes on                      64
            chart of region near          70
Bering Strait, soundings in               81
Betton Island                             21
Blinkhorn Id                              17
Brown Passage, breaker in                 19

Cape Chaplin, sounding off                80
Cape Cross                                32
Cape Elisabeth, breaker near              19