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86 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. [[end page]] [[start page]] 87 New Notebook commenced Aug 22nd 1880. 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