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About 5 P.M. leave anchorage and start northward for Chisik Id anchorage
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July 23rd, 1895.  About six A.M. run into Chisik Id [[insertion]] ^ (Tooksednee) [[/insertion]] Harbor and anchor under the island shore.  Bark Highland Light at anchor, waiting for salmon from Kassiloff cannery.  Go aboard and consult Capt. Hughes about the locality.  He is anchored in 18 fms.  Lowest spring tide in June was 36 ft. about 24 ft at ordinary times.  Go to Point at NW head of North entrance (blocked by foul ground) about 57 ft high.  Reddish gravel 4 ft., below it barren yellowish sandstone coarse quartz grains about 15 ft.; then dark grey to pale limestone in successive thin beds, lowest is a light gray barren shale.
The limestone is rather plentifully supplied with fossils (D.94)

Transcription Notes:
Tooksednee = Tuxedni